When the picture became clear again, the entire Iron Spine Sect was affected.
Many buildings on the main peak were uprooted, and the remaining bricks and tiles were swept into the air by the shock wave. The stone wall of Alchemy Chamber was broken from its foundation, and the entire wall fell outwards, smashing into powder on the square. The medicine garden was shaken so much that the ground rolled over. The roots of spirit medicine buried in the soil were exposed. The gate of the spirit beast circle was torn into pieces by the shock wave, and the spirit beasts inside fled in all directions. Some were knocked down by falling gravel as soon as they took a few steps, and some took advantage of the chaos and got into the depths of the ruins.
The mountain guard formation shook violently, and cracks spread in all directions from the impact point.
In the underground palace square, mountains of Spirit Stone burst out with dazzling white light in an instant - all Spirit Stone, all pills, and all items containing spiritual power were forcibly drained by the formation. The rich Spiritual Qi turned into a white torrent visible to the naked eye, rushing crazily along the blood vessel-like Spirit Rune on the jade ground.
The Meridian Opening Realm elders who maintained the formation were sitting in the innermost circle of the underground palace square. Their bodies shook violently at the moment when the formation absorbed spiritual power, and their flesh and blood shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye. The skin collapsed and the muscles atrophied. The eye sockets were sunken, and then even the bones began to become transparent. All the flesh and blood and spiritual energy of their bodies were drawn into the formation, leaving only skeletons as white as jade, with their hands still touching the ground, sitting upright on the spot.
True Person Iron Bone's body shook violently. Most of the Qi and Blood in his body was taken away, and his whole body became visibly weaker. The wrinkles on his face became deeper, and his back became a little stooped. He saw the outcome of the Meridian Opening elders in the underground palace square - they suffered the backlash of the formation before he did, and had already taken a step ahead.
He didn't even have time to grieve.
"Master Devil King," True Person Iron Bone stood on the top of the half-remaining tower, raised his sleeve and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said in an understatement, "That was a full blow from you, right? My formation can withstand you doing this ten or twenty times again. No problem every time. But I feel that my human Nascent Soul True Lord is coming back. If he doesn't leave, I'll stay. It just so happens that I, Iron Bone, have lived for so many years and I haven't eaten the flesh and blood of Devil King yet."
After saying this, his body began to change.
A wave of Blood Qi that was so strong that it was almost substantial exploded from his body, wrapping his whole body in a dark red halo. His bones were crackling, his spine lengthened section by section, his shoulder blades spread out to both sides, and his arm bones and leg bones grew thicker at the same time. He was originally eight feet tall. The thin old man seemed to have been stretched from the top of his head and soles of his feet by an invisible hand, and his whole body suddenly swelled to 1.5 feet. The shriveled muscles swelled again, and every muscle fiber was as sharp and angular as if it had been poured with molten iron. The wrinkles on his face were flattened, and he turned back into an angular and hard middle-aged face.
He took out two giant hammers from Storage Bag. The hammer heads were each as tall as a man, and the whole body was dark. The surface of the hammer was covered with fine Spirit Rune, and every line was filled with a very faint color. The bloody light. He held one handle in each hand, two hammers in hand, full of fighting spirit, looking up at Devil King, who was floating above the formation and frowning slightly, as if he was about to rush out and die with him in the next moment.
Qin Tiexin can see clearly that True Person Iron Bone is burning his own life Essence Blood, using Secret Method to forcibly convert his remaining vitality into his final combat power. This state cannot last long, but it is enough to hold on until Nascent Soul True Lord arrives.
Devil King's expression finally changed.
It's not that he's afraid of True Person Iron Bone - just Meridian Opening Late Stage. Even if he burns all his life, Essence Blood can't threaten him. What makes him change his color is the two rays of light approaching rapidly in the distance. Qin Tiexin followed his gaze., two light spots on the horizon are approaching at an extremely fast speed. In the first breath, they were just two blurry bright spots. In the next breath, the outline of a human figure can be seen in the light spots. One of the rays of light has already taken the lead, and a flying sword tears the air, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it heads straight towards the location of Ye Cang.
The speed of the flying sword was so fast that Qin Tiexin's eyesight could hardly follow its trajectory. Spirit Rune on the sword dragged out a light tail dozens of feet long during the flight. Through the formation, one could feel the sword's intent, which was so sharp that it made one's scalp numb.
"Ye Cang, you are so brave, you actually dare to go down to the domain privately to bully my human clan! You are seeking death!"
The voice came from very far away, but the words were clear, causing ripples to appear on the outer wall of the mountain guard formation.
Qin Tiexin saw that the moment True Person Iron Bone heard the sound, the hands holding the hammer relaxed slightly. His back sank slightly by half an inch, and the breath held in his chest silently He spat it out. But he still maintained that fanatical smile on his face, his hammers were still held high, and his fighting spirit was still high. It seemed that he would be able to cooperate with Nascent Soul True Lord to kill the Devil King in front of him immediately.
Devil King Ye Cang glanced hatefully at the sect below. He spent so much effort tearing apart the domain wall and sneaking into Azure Xuan Region to attract the attention of the three Nascent Soul. However, he failed to find anything and instead made himself embarrassed. The two rays of light in the distance were getting closer and closer, and the flying sword was about to pierce in front of him.
Ye Cang was not panicked. He took out a jade talisman from his arms. The surface of the talisman was too exquisite to be ordinary. The pattern outlined on it was not Spirit Rune, but a ladder-shaped pattern that Qin Tiexin had never seen before. Ye Cang activated the jade talisman, and the space in front of him was distorted, and a layer upon layer of stairs appeared out of thin air. The stairs extended from the void, with one end hanging in front of Ye Cang, and the other end submerged in an incomprehensible chaos.
Ye Cang stepped onto the stairs. But before leaving, he turned his head and glanced at True Person Iron Bone, with a meaningful smile on his lips. When his left arm finally disappeared, a small dark purple fireball condensed and popped out from his finger.
Then he turned around and walked up the stairs. The stairs swallowed his figure step by step, from his legs to his torso and then to his head. Finally, even the pair of dark purple flesh wings behind him were completely submerged in the chaos. The stairs then dissipated and the space returned to flatness, as if it had never appeared before.
The flying sword passed by Penetration where Ye Cang was standing just now, and only struck a piece of nothingness.
True Person Iron Bone stood on the top of the tower, still maintaining the posture of holding his hammers high. He watched the small dark purple fireball float down from the position where Ye Cang disappeared, and landed lightly on the outer wall of the mountain guarding formation. There was no impact, no sound. There was no vibration, not even ripples. The small fireball silently blended into the outer wall of the formation, like a drop of ink melting into a bowl of water, and spread quickly. The entire mountain-protecting formation was dyed with a light purple color, spreading in all directions from the point of impact, and it only took two breaths to cover the entire outer wall of the formation.
True Person Iron Bone's body suddenly froze.
His expression froze on his face, and the hands holding up the hammers stopped in mid-air. Qin Tiexin saw his lips move, as if he wanted to say something, but before he could make any sound, his whole body turned into flying objects from head to toe. Ash. The body was like a sand sculpture blown away by the wind. The skin, muscles, and bones disintegrated into extremely fine powder at the same time, and were completely dissipated in the wind. The two giant hammers crashed on the top of the tower, destroying less than half of the already broken tower body.
In the underground palace square, all the disciples sitting cross-legged froze at the same moment. When maintaining the formation, their spiritual connection with the formation was not broken, and the purple erosion poured into their bodies in the opposite direction Spirit Rune, destroying all the remaining flesh and blood essence of them. All of them were sucked dry. Hundreds of disciples, from the elder Meridian Opening in the innermost circle to the disciple Qi Refining in the outermost circle, all kept their hands touching the ground. Their flesh and blood dissipated invisible within a few breaths, leaving only a pure white skeleton.
After absorbing the remaining spiritual power of all the formation eyes and the flesh and blood essence of all the disciples, the mountain-protecting formation became more stable. A lavender halo circulated on the outer wall of the formation, with no one controlling or maintaining it. The formation still continued to operate with the last inertia, firmly covering the dead sect within it.
After two breaths, two figures stopped outside the formation.
A young and handsome man grabbed the hilt of the flying sword. The tip of the sword drew a half-circle arc in the air, but he could no longer find the target. His face was full of anger, his sword eyebrows were raised, and he gritted his teeth and cursed, "Damn it, I'm too late."
The young and handsome man put away the flying sword, his face was as dark as water, his eyes swept over the slowly fading purple on the outer wall of the formation, and he frowned. "Ye Cang, that madman, even used [Ascension to Godhood Token] for a small sect."
Next to him stood a woman in a white dress. She looked younger than the man, with a cold face. Her eyes fell on the dead buildings below. She did not speak, but quietly sensed the remaining breath inside the formation. After a long time, she spoke, and her voice was so calm that there was almost no fluctuation:
"It's the backlash of the formation."
"What?"
"Ye Cang The last Law Technique is not for attacking Law Technique, but for breaking the formation." The woman raised her hand and pointed her fingertips on the fading purple layer on the outer wall of the formation. "This formation is based on Spirit Vein and uses humans as the eyes of the formation. All disciples connect their spiritual power with the formation, which is equivalent to hanging their lives on the formation..Ye Cang used this Law Technique to forcibly reverse the flow of spiritual power inside and outside the formation, and the formation eyes backfired, drawing all the flesh, blood, and essence of everyone into the formation itself." She paused, "The foundation of this formation is too strong and can withstand Devil King's full blow. The price is that all the formation eyes must bear the backlash at the same time. The sect leader should know that."
The man was silent, and after a moment he shouted, "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!! Ye Cang thought running from Long Stairway to Godhood back to Central Heaven Great Region would be fine? I'm going to Central Heaven Great Region to find him out too."
He picked up the sword and was about to leave, but was stopped by the woman.
"Deal with the matter in front of you first." She glanced at the dead sect below that was shrouded by the formation, "The final spiritual power of this formation can still operate for more than two hundred years. If the seal is not reinforced, the day the formation naturally dissipates, the things inside will be destroyed. The surrounding Rogue Cultivator and Demon Beast were looted. Although Iron Spine Sect is only a small sect, it has firmly maintained the character of our human race. The inheritance should not be cut off like this."
The two discussed for a few words and then dispersed. The man placed a triple seal around the formation, prohibiting the intrusion of all external spiritual powers and creatures; the woman stood suspended above the hall, closed her eyes, and spread Divine Sense towards every corner of the entire sect.. Her Divine Sense passed over those collapsed buildings, those scattered relics, those smashed Pill Furnace and torn rolls of animal skins, collecting every remaining fragment of consciousness and kneading it into a complete memory imprint.
She branded this memory into the bluestone wall of the trial hall and into the center of the underground palace square.
"If someone in the future is destined to enter this place and obtain its inheritance, I hope you will remember the reason why Iron Spine Sect destroyed the family. If you succeed in cultivation one day, please avenge the five hundred and seventy-eight disciples of the Iron Spine Sect, the enemy-Central Heaven Great Region, Devil King, Ye Cang"
The woman engraved this sentence at the end of the memory imprint, and scanned the entire underground palace square for the last time with Divine Sense. After confirming that nothing was left behind, she fell from the air, stood side by side with the man, and each cast spells. The mountain sealing formation was sealed in three layers Slowly solidified under the blessing, the lavender traces were finally covered by a thick layer of cyan aura, and then completely integrated into the gray skylight of the Black Meteor Mountain Range. The figures of the two Nascent Soul True Lord also faded and disappeared into the distance.
The picture freezes at this moment, and then slowly fades.
Qin Tiexin stood in the underground palace square again. In front of him were hundreds of white bones sitting cross-legged. The dark golden light around the square quietly illuminated these Iron Spine Sect disciples who had been sitting for more than two hundred years. There was no resentment in the air, no Sha Qi, only dead silence and an indescribable weight.
Qin Tiexin stood there and was silent for a long time.
He looked at the nearest white skeleton - judging from the thickness and height of the skeleton, it was an ordinary outer sect disciple whose cultivation level would not exceed Body Tempering Ninth Layer. His hand bones still maintained the posture of touching the ground with both palms, with the phalanges slightly open and the palms facing down, as if he was still sending the remaining spiritual power in his body to the ground at the last moment of his life.
More than five hundred bones, one posture, one direction.