Indeed! Before making their move, all of them had known that for this ten-thousand-year purple lotus to have grown in the spirit pool for ten thousand years without anyone taking it, an immensely powerful being must have been guarding it.
Clearly, the being guarding the ten-thousand-year purple lotus had probably also been drawn away by the aura of someone undergoing tribulation to reach the spirit transformation stage!
Now that it had discovered someone was stealing the treasure it had guarded for so many years, it had naturally come rushing back in a fury!
Of course, the ten-thousand-year purple lotus certainly had not been exposed before. It must have been submerged beneath the spirit pool, emerging only now that it had matured!
Otherwise, even with a powerful being guarding it, someone would have stolen it.
And at that moment!
Teacher Lan Qing had already collected the ten-thousand-year purple lotus!
Once the ten-thousand-year purple lotus was taken away, the tribulation lightning in the sky naturally vanished as well...
But everyone heard that furious roar.
Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable shouted without hesitation, "Let's go! Don't come face-to-face with that fellow! It's not easy to deal with! Don't let word get out that we obtained the ten-thousand-year purple lotus! We'll be besieged!"
As he spoke, he moved, put away his golden staff treasure, and raced out of the valley...
Everyone hurried after him. They had not come here to fight some powerful demon beast. Battles at the spirit transformation stage consumed an extraordinary amount of power; if they could avoid fighting, they would.
Besides, just as Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had said, this ten-thousand-year purple lotus was an immensely tempting treasure to spirit transformation stage cultivators whose lifespans were running short. If word got out, who knew how many beings lurking in hiding would come looking