At the sight, Xu Taiping immediately asked with some self-reproach:
"Lord Star Lord, did this junior ask too many questions?"
The Star Lord Wuqu smiled faintly.
"No matter. Now that the person I was waiting for has arrived, this strand of my divine intent can finally be released."
As he spoke, amid a rumbling that shook heaven and earth, the azure sky canopy overhead began shattering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this, Qu Chao Ci, who had already come up behind Xu Taiping, immediately cried out:
"This is bad! The edict the Jade Mother left in this world is collapsing!"
Xu Taiping immediately turned his gaze to the Star Lord Wuqu and asked:
"Lord Star Lord, is that true?"
The Star Lord Wuqu nodded.
"Once someone passes the Jade Mother's trial, the edict she left in this world will dissipate."
At this point, he gave a mysterious smile.
"It will then turn into a fragment of divine intent and gather in the fifth layer of the sacred land above."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping's expression changed.
"So the Jade Mother's edicts in the four layers below dissipated because someone completed the trials she left in those layers?"
The Star Lord Wuqu nodded.
"Correct."
He continued:
"After the edicts in those lower layers shattered, many cultivators came, one after another, to challenge This Lord's Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation."
"But before today, none had succeeded."
Understanding immediately dawned on Xu Taiping's face.
"So the Jade Mother's edicts shattered not because someone deliberately destroyed them, but because the venerable Jade Mother intended it."
Then, with great curiosity, he asked the Star Lord Wuqu:
"Are there many who know about this?"
The Star Lord Wuqu thought for a moment, then nodded.
"The strongest few in this world today should all