Earlier, after repeated discussions, He Pingsheng and Wang Dun had still felt that their combined strength might not be enough to deal with the two Sacred Lords.
They might be able to defeat them, but they certainly could not capture them.
After all, both possessed formidable divine abilities.
But without capturing them, they would have no way to extract their origins.
Without extracting those origins, repairing the Ascension Passage was naturally out of the question.
After discussing it, the two decided to join forces with some reliable Spirit Transformation cultivators to take on the Sacred Mountain.
He Pingsheng knew only two: the two patriarchs of the Liang Kingdom.
Wang Dun also invited a handful.
There had not been many at first, but through these Spirit Transformation cultivators, they contacted others who had long resented the Sacred Mountain.
Even so, none of them dared oppose the Sacred Lords directly.
Thus, He Pingsheng gave each of them an Earthroot Talisman and had them temporarily enter the Great Freedom Pearl.
Only after the conversation between He Pingsheng and He Asks reached them inside the Great Freedom Pearl did everyone finally understand: all the evil in this world had been committed by these two brothers.
Some hated them for ruining their own paths toward the Great Dao; others hated them for capturing their kin.
Quite a few patriarchs of imperial families also united against their common enemy.
And so, working together with one heart, more than fifty of them subdued He Asks and his brother.
Rumble...
On the Sacred Mountain, He Pingsheng opened the Grand Array guarding an underground palace.
Everyone surged inside, entering the underground palace.
After circling around a few times, they finally reached the [Fortune-Stripping, Essence-Gathering, Lifespan-Transmuting Divine Tree Formation].
An entire ring of people surrounded it.
But they were