The Seventh Elder gazed at the enormous bronze ring at the entrance to the Darkness Forbidden Ground, a flicker of worry crossing his eyes. They had been plotting to obtain the Treasure Pagoda inside for a very long time.
On several previous occasions, they had sent people to sneak inside, but all had vanished like stones sinking into the sea, never to be heard from again.
He had long suspected that some other powerful being lurked within the Darkness Forbidden Ground.
When the four great sects had joined forces to establish the restrictions back then, they had laid down exceptionally powerful formation restrictions. Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Realm or above could not enter. Even if someone entered as a Qi Refining Realm cultivator and then broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm inside, that would not work either. The restrictions would immediately strike them dead with five bolts of thunder.
Formation restrictions jointly established by the Nascent Soul Realm old monsters of the four great sects could not possibly have such a loophole.
Likewise, the demonized Demon Beasts that survived inside could reach no higher than the peak of the third tier. Once they broke through to the fourth tier, the restrictions would immediately kill them too...
No peak third-tier Magic Beast had appeared in the Darkness Forbidden Ground for many years. There were certainly third-tier Magic Beasts, but not that many remained.
Still, even if they encountered a third-tier Magic Beast, it could not possibly stand against the combined strength of the peak Qi Refining Realm disciples whom the Golden Core Stage Great Cultivators had so carefully selected.
Moreover, among the five, Gu Changdao and Qin Minghui each had the strength to take on a third-tier Magic Beast alone.
Qin Minghui could even slay third-tier Magic Beasts. With