The sudden turn of events shook the senior Immortal Mansion cultivators guarding the passages into the Secret Realms. Once they recovered from their shock, they hurried to inform the Mystic Insight Realm ancestors within the mansions.
They had anticipated that demonic cultivators might infiltrate the Five Elements Secret Realm when it opened.
But they had never imagined those Demon Spawn would destroy their own bodies to strike directly at the passages.
An operation on this scale was no simple infiltration. It was an organized, premeditated attack by demonic cultivators.
As soon as they received the news, the four Immortal Mansion ancestors, including Venerable Shu Xi, appeared at the Secret Realm entrances. They used their Zhen Xuan to suppress the turbulent currents and stabilize the passages.
At the same time, they immediately sent word to the Yang Clan and Lingxiao Dao Academy.
Mo Yunzhou, He Shenglai, and the others soon received the news as well. They joined the Five Directions Immortal Mansion in screening the cultivators who had yet to enter the Secret Realms.
Their search uncovered another group of people from Demon Soil hidden among the righteous cultivators.
But the demonic cultivators still inside the Immortal Mansions were only small fry at the Essence Condensation and Qi Gathering Realms.
They were nothing more than the lowest-ranking foot soldiers in this operation. Even soul-searching them would yield little useful intelligence.
Still, the senior righteous cultivators in the Immortal Mansions could infer a few things from the demonic cultivators' actions.
The spatial passages in all five Immortal Mansions had been badly disrupted by the turbulent currents. To prevent further accidents, they could only wait until the passages were fully stable before allowing the next group of cultivators inside.
The attackers had chosen this moment to strike the passages. Clearly, they meant to