"Boom!"
The golden light of the Myriad Spirits Atlas withdrew inward. The green mist and miasma swirling outside Medicine Peak slowly flowed into the mountain, sinking entirely into the black soil of the Medicine Field.
The Grand Formation abruptly settled, revealing the devastation left by the battle within. Daoist Yunhai's eyes widened, an exceedingly rare expression of disbelief appearing on his face.
"Wh-what happened to Medicine Peak? Why are there traces of so many different spell battles everywhere?" The deacon elder standing beside Cloud Sea had now sensed that the Grand Formation had settled and temporarily dispersed Medicine Peak's miasma. Only then could he release his spiritual sense and investigate the traces of Divine Methods the infiltrators had left before dying.
"Look! The Medicine Field around the Taoist Temple is full of corpses... what on earth happened here?!"
"Medicine Peak doesn't even have this many disciples. Why are so many people dead?"
"Are you fucking brainless? Do they have to be our Medicine Peak disciples? Couldn't they be outsiders?"
"...!"
It was not only the deacon elders discussing it. The thousands of Myriad Spirits Garden disciples who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion also erupted into an irrepressible uproar.
The sight before them was truly horrifying. All the Medicine Fields near the mountaintop Taoist Temple had been leveled and burned by Divine Methods. The ruined black soil was littered with severed limbs, pools of blood, and dismembered corpses... stretching into a dense, unbroken expanse. It truly resembled a meat-grinder battlefield, hell on earth.
Had this happened elsewhere, no one would have been so shocked. But the fact that it had happened on Medicine Peak, within the inner peaks at that, was simply inconceivable.
Heavenly Capital was the Divine Court's "national capital," as well as the main base of Order