Celestial Palace Emerges

Drawn out of that isolated place, Chen Yang's spirit body returned to its stone body.

At the same time, the other cultivators who had been bitterly battling their replicated Dharma bodies in the various cave abode spaces were also able to escape danger.

As the spiritual light around them faded away, those replicated Dharma bodies all revealed expressions of regret and unwillingness.

Especially those Dharma bodies that had already killed the cultivators' true selves—they roared and wailed in despair as though possessed by madness.

Had Chen Yang not appeared, they would have been able, under the power of the Divine Palace Treasure Mirror, to occupy the bodies of those dead cultivators, inherit all their memories and personalities, even reshape their minds, thereby gaining a true life and walking beneath heaven and earth.

But Chen Yang had taken away that treasure mirror. Without the support of its divine powers, everything they had could only come to an end here; they could no longer continue to exist.

A quarter of an hour later, Yang Lingrui and the other two had also completed the ascension of their divine senses beneath that halo of light.

Following the opened passage above them, they quickly discovered an upward corridor and returned to the surface through it.

After the three of them, the other surviving cultivators also left that cave abode one after another through exits scattered throughout the mountain range.

Once they returned to the immortal vessel, all these cultivators still trembled at the memory of what had just happened. Quite a few of them had nearly died at the hands of their replicated Dharma bodies.

Yet there was no denying that after such a vicious battle, they had all gained new insights into the Dao arts, to a greater or lesser extent.

Thus, quite a