"I heard it from Brother Huang Que too."
Bai Yu gave a powerful beat of the wings, plunged straight into the clouds, and swept over a mountaintop before continuing:
"During these three years of your secluded cultivation, to hold back the Nine Abysses and keep them from sending more Demon Seeds into the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, all the great cities of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven abandoned their original plans to hide their strength and bide their time. They began actively attacking the Nine Abysses' strongholds throughout the tower."
"The Cultivation World even publicly offered bounties for assassinating the true bodies of the Nine Abysses' Demon Seeds who had entered the Mysterious Wasteland Tower."
"Under such reckless, relentless harassment, the Nine Abysses were forced to contract their battle formations and withdraw some of their forces to guard the Demon Seeds' true bodies inside the tower."
"As a result, the cultivators from the various heavens inside the Mysterious Wasteland Tower faced much less pressure."
"Only then were so many cultivators from the Five Heavens finally able to ascend to the Sixth Layer, the Seventh Layer, and even the Eighth Layer of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower."
At this point, Bai Yu sighed again, then murmured in a tone that could scarcely bear to speak of it:
"But it was too tragically heavy a toll. Mysterious Wasteland Heaven lost dozens of Transformation Realm cultivators alone, and there were even Heaven Questioning Realm experts among the fallen."
"Ordinary cultivators went without saying. To hunt down a single Demon Seed's true body, they often had to throw in dozens or even hundreds of cultivators' lives."
Hearing this, even Xu Taiping, steady as his state of mind was, could not help being deeply moved.
Only after a long while did Xu Taiping raise his head. Holding Ping'an, who