"Rumble!"
"Splash!"
They watched as Treasure Mountain, where the cultivators had trained for seven or eight hundred years, vanished entirely beneath the sea. The immense mountain's plunge had stirred up a terrifying, suffocating tsunami, which was now slowly subsiding.
Countless human cultivators in the sky wore expressions of regret and desolation. Over the years, as Treasure Mountain's spiritual qi steadily declined, cultivators from every sect had noticed that it was growing scarcer and had sent many of their members home. There were now only a seventh or an eighth as many cultivators on Treasure Mountain as there had been at its peak...
The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators were unwilling to accept that Treasure Mountain had simply sunk to the seabed. They gathered to discuss it and decided to explore underwater. Perhaps they might still find something else...
However...
The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators had been too optimistic. Once they descended, they could not find even a trace of Treasure Mountain. Upon reaching the seabed, they used great divine abilities to open a hole several thousand zhang wide and kept digging down, yet still found no sign of it!
The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators could do nothing. It seemed Treasure Mountain had unquestionably disappeared.
After another discussion, the Spirit Communion Stage cultivators realized that Treasure Mountain might already have been taken away. There was no longer any reason for their sects to remain in the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea. More importantly, without restrictions or structures to protect them, none of them were confident they could defeat the Demon Realm's army if it attacked while they stayed there.
Treasure Mountain's sudden sinking had indirectly cost the sects a considerable quantity of supplies. Fortunately, none of their most important possessions had been lost, including treasures like the Repeating Spirit Cannon that could be put into