Then Gu Xian also struck, attacking an utterly inconspicuous array core in the southeastern corner.
Immediately afterward, dense cracks instantly spread across the ancient restriction!
"The restriction is about to break!"
Seeing this, Elder Yan Ling's eyes lit up beside him, and he shouted.
"Everyone, keep at it!"
Not far away, Elder Wu Lie from the Martial Realm also laughed wildly, swinging the Sky-Piercing Halberd he had seized on the first floor.
Everyone attacked at once, striking where the cracks in the restriction were densest.
And so, with an earth-shaking boom,
the ancient restriction that had protected the Heaven-Swallowing Sacred Lion for tens of millions of years finally exploded.
It turned into a skyful of light and dissipated into the air.
"It's broken!"
"Grab it!"
The instant the restriction shattered, the hundred thousand or so cultivators below, whose eyes had long since turned red, went completely mad!
Everyone roared, surging toward the enormous skeletal remains of the lion like a tide that blotted out the sky.
"The inner core is mine!"
As those words fell, Elder Wu Lie took the lead, thrusting out his hand and forming an enormous claw of spiritual energy a thousand zhang across.
It reached for the inner core atop the lion's skull, which shimmered with a seven-colored, glassy luster.
"Old ghost Wu, you want to keep it all to yourself? Have you asked my permission?"
On the other side, Elder Yan Ling of the Endless Fire Domain snorted coldly.
The skyful of seven-colored flames instantly turned into a fiery whip that lashed straight at Wu Lie's enormous spiritual energy claw.
The two Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns fought fiercely in midair over this Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign inner core.
The terrifying shock waves instantly hurled the nearby Rogue Cultivators away.
While they fought over the inner core, the