Second-Layer World, [Northern Deep] safe zone:
After many cultivators in their physical bodies secretly shouldered the [Great One] statues and fled, some of the other Yin Spirit Cultivators still had no idea what had happened.
They had only seen light sweeping across the distance, killing many of their companions.
Then they had seen some experts hurriedly return to the Present World.
They actually wanted to return to the Present World too, but without orders from the powerful cultivators, they dared not.
Now, they could only hide in room after room and pray silently, praying that nothing would happen.
Before long, however, they saw light descending from the sky, blanketing heaven and earth.
Enveloped in the light, they felt warm all over.
What struck them as uncanny was that, although they were clearly inside their rooms, they could see the light passing through the walls without any obstruction and shining on them.
Finally, they saw a golden Yang Spirit carrying a strange lantern with seventy-two faces that could shine in seventy-two colors.
"What a beautiful lantern!"
Wang Quan's Yang Spirit carried the lantern and stood inside the safe zone established by [Northern Deep].
He raised the lantern, illuminating every direction.
Inside the safe zone, all the remaining Yang Spirits and Yin Spirits evaporated without a trace.
He searched for cultivators in their physical bodies, hoping to find the statues.
Only after reaching the hall did he discover that the statues were gone, as were the cultivators in their physical bodies who had worshipped them.
"They all fled?"
A thought stirred in Wang Quan's mind, and he instantly realized that these people had probably fled to the Underworld.
In the Present World, the [White Bone Ring] and [Light-Splitting Mirror] were burning Dharma Power, unleashing their might, and slaughtering in every direction.
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