Ruo Jinghong and the others had prepared all sorts of measures, only to find that none of them had been needed.
Wang Quan, on the other hand, had intended to fight them, pit his divine abilities against theirs, and sound out their capabilities.
Instead, one greater divine ability had killed them all.
This had truly caught him by surprise.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Some cultivators used their methods to dig up the ground formed from magic treasure fragments, preparing to transplant it outside Stone City.
Others searched for the souls of the Madmen members, hoping to dig out some information.
Yet they found not a single fragment of a soul.
"Did the Flower-Scatter Daoist's divine ability destroy all those souls?"
Ruo Jinghong asked, "Can that divine ability shred souls?"
Wang Quan nodded. "When the starlight falls, whether it's a body of flesh and blood or a soul or thought, anything within the starlight that cannot break the divine ability will be annihilated, body and soul."
His words made Ruo Jinghong and the others value greater divine abilities even more, especially those of the highest tier.
Some Golden Core cultivators knew they had no chance of mastering such a top-tier greater divine ability, but they still intended to study it seriously. Even if they could not find a way to break it, they needed to understand how it operated so that they could hold out a little longer if they encountered it in the future.
After disposing of these Madmen members, Wang Quan felt a sudden stirring and vaguely sensed that danger remained.
A thought stirred in his mind, and he told Ruo Jinghong and the others, "Keep expanding the safe zone. I'm going back to the Mortal World."
"After I leave, if enemies come to attack, just stall for time."
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