Thirty-Two People

When these powerful cultivators heard the news that Cloud Gathering City had been sealed off by a protective formation three hours earlier, preventing anyone from leaving the city, and that a black aura called Execution Qi had appeared in the city, and that the black mist was already visible to the naked eye when the disciples and Execution Qi Execution Stone that many people in the city might not be able to hold on.

However, when they arrived, they found that many people in the city seemed to be in good condition, and everyone looked like a normal person.

After carefully observing the black, mist-like Execution Qi within the city, they found that its concentration did not seem to be increasing much, so there was no need to worry for the time being.

As for the Cloud Burst, although the clouds above were already very low and looked like they were about to crush the earth with overwhelming force, the experienced ones were not worried. Right now, it was just a show of force, and in reality, it was still a long time before the Cloud Burst actually caused danger.

It's more than enough to break through the formation and rescue the people.

After a while, two more groups of powerful cultivators arrived.

The total number of people has reached thirty-two.

After quickly gathering together to discuss and make arrangements, they began to break through the formation.

These patriarchs from various sects and Lineage were all at the Void Returning Realm, with two even reaching the Late Void Return Stage, namely the Supreme Elders of the Supreme Splendor Sect and the Cloud Water Sect.

After investigation, they discovered that the formation was currently in its highest level of defensive mode, and upon seeing this, all the powerful cultivators understood.

The city-protecting formations were set up by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, mainly to resist Cloud Burst and protect the city from destruction during the Cloud Burst Cloud Burst. However, due to some special characteristics of Cloud Burst that outsiders are unaware of, all the city-protecting formations in Chongxiao Domain can only protect inanimate objects such as various items and facilities within the city during the Cloud Burst, but cannot protect the lives of cultivators.

The reason why this city-protecting formation was not devoured by the Execution Qi was because Execution Cultivator were rampant at that time, and many cultivators would specialize in researching methods to counter Execution Qi. Therefore, these formations were designed to have the ability to resist Execution Qi.

Now that the Cloud Burst has occurred earlier than expected, the city's protective array has been activated ahead of schedule. As for sealing off the city, it is a built-in function of the array's defensive mode. In the past, all cultivators who needed to evacuate before the Cloud Burst arrived had left at least ten days to half a month in advance. No one expected that the Cloud Burst would occur earlier, resulting in people being trapped in the city. Therefore, this function of sealing off the city has never been modified.

These are things that ordinary low-level cultivators don't understand, but these thirty-two Void Return cultivators are very clear about them. They are all leaders of major sects and Aristocratic Clan, and the inheritances of their sects and Lineage have always had important markings and descriptions of the Qi of Execution Qi, which is something they must pay attention to and remember.

Although there have been few traces of Execution Cultivator over the centuries, they have always been keeping an eye on things and investigating from behind the scenes.

However, people tend to become complacent and complacent about things that haven't happened for a long time. Over time, they gradually become numb. It's not that they don't care anymore, but since it hasn't appeared and there's no trace of it, they have no direction to follow. This makes them wonder if it's really necessary to be so tense all the time. There are so many other things in life worth doing right now. They can't keep exhausting themselves researching and investigating something that they don't know when or if it will happen.

Therefore, everything about the Execution Stone, Execution Qi, and Execution Cultivator seemed to be gradually covered by an increasingly thick layer of dust, and then kept on the high shelf in the hearts of all these knowledgeable high-level cultivators, no longer valued or mentioned.

Their sudden appearance has given these people a sense of relief.

It's like something that's been lingering in your heart for a long time, something you thought you'd probably never see the light of day again, can finally be taken out and discussed in a targeted and purposeful way, and dealt with seriously.

Therefore, these Void Return cultivators not only showed no impatience, but were all very enthusiastic. They were eager to break the formation as soon as possible, and then quickly find out the source of the Execution Qi and track down the movements of those Execution Cultivator.

Among the thirty-two Void Return cultivators outside the city, only Lu Changming, the Supreme Elder of the Supreme Splendor Sect, and Gongsun Jingge, the patriarch of another Aristocratic Clan, were high-level array masters.

They were responsible for breaking the formation, while the others cooperated with them to attack each point in the formation.

For array masters of Lu Changming and Gongsun Jingge's level, if given enough time, such as a dozen or even a hundred years, they could carefully study the intricacies of an array like the Cloud Gathering City's protective array. They could untangle it bit by bit, like unraveling a tangled mess, and then solve it almost perfectly.

In this emergency, even they could only find the key points of the formation and then use brute force to break through them one by one.

It is foreseeable that if they successfully break through the formation and rescue the city, the protective formation of Cloud Gathering City will be unusable for a long time, and the time and money required to repair it will be a huge sum.

At this moment, breaking the formation is inevitable.

Although the concentration of the Execution Qi in the city did not increase further.

However, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for the cultivators in the city who are immersed in the Execution Qi. Since the Execution Qi has appeared, it is naturally the Execution Cultivator who deliberately made it absorb the cultivators in the city and turn it into their own power. As for what they will do with this power and what they can do, it is unknown. In short, it is impossible that it is just for the purpose of slaughtering these cultivators.

Regardless of the ultimate purpose of the Execution Cultivator, it is definitely detrimental to their spiritual practice and must be stopped!

The thirty-two Void Return cultivators all sprang into action.

Under the guidance of two high-level array masters, the remaining thirty people were able to attack wherever they were directed, and more than fifty of the array points of the city's protective array were broken in just one hour.

This city-protecting formation was indeed extremely powerful. Even after so many points of the formation were broken, it remained unmoved, showing almost no signs of wavering.

Seeing this, the two array masters dared not relax in the slightest, knowing that the array points would become increasingly difficult to discover as they progressed.

Once the hundredth point of the city's defensive formation was breached, its points could no longer be easily detected.

The two array masters each summoned their own natal array plates and array flags. One used the array points that had just been found and broken as a base to simulate the situation of the city's protective array, while the other used Spiritual Power to control the array plate and array flag to try to communicate with the city's protective array through the one hundred array points that had just been broken, and input Spiritual Power into the network of the city's protective array to continue searching for array points.

The cultivators within the city who were still barely conscious were closely watching the movements of these Void Return experts; how to escape the Cloud Burst after they left was no longer on their minds.