At the Purple Cloud Valley sect grounds.
A streak of sword light spanning a thousand zhang across the sky suddenly shot in from afar like lightning, slamming straight into the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation.
The terrifying impact sent the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation shaking violently. The earth quaked and the mountains trembled within Purple Cloud Valley, and the disciples remaining in the sect looked up.
Dozens of streaks of escape light rose into the sky in alarm and uncertainty. Among them were Purple Cloud Valley's three Core Formation elders, including Huang Yan.
With a mysterious Sword Cultivator lurking nearby, all four of Purple Cloud Valley's Core Formation elders except Ji Shuwen had remained within the sect.
"Who dares attack our gates? Repel the enemy!"
After their initial shock, the three Core Formation elders roared in anger.
Purple Cloud Valley was the strongest sect in the five kingdoms of the Western Wasteland's Western Region, an overlord among them. Even after the grand elder passed away, Purple Cloud Valley had failed to produce another Core Formation late-stage cultivator.
Still, it was not a sect just anyone could provoke. Besides, they were within their own sect grounds now.
They had previously been intimidated by the mysterious Sword Cultivator's threat and dared not leave the sect alone.
But here, they had a third-tier top-grade Sect-Protecting Grand Formation shielding them. Even against a Core Formation late-stage cultivator, they had nothing to fear with the formation at their backs!
"Yes, elders!"
Reassured and directed by the elders, the low-level Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators soon recovered from their panic, took up their assigned duties, and prepared to face the attacker.
Yet the sheer force of the attacker's assault on the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation made one thing clear: Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators could do little in