Published: August 10, 2026
Five hundred li away, Liu Yu and the other two held their positions and made no move.
On the other side, at Rushi Temple's mountain gate, the situation was becoming increasingly dire.
"Boom!!!"
Heavenly might surged like a tide, thunder roared deafeningly, and the power on display was enough to make one's hair stand on end.
Several bolts of two-colored thunder tore through the sky and struck the Sect-Protection Array in an instant, causing the golden shield protecting Rushi Temple to tremble violently.
At this life-and-death moment, there were still tens of thousands of cultivators of varying strength within the mountain gate, all striving to defend their home.
But it was of little use.
The strength of power, the difference in cultivation, would not shift according to human will.
Under the despairing gazes of the cultivators of Rushi Temple, the formation protecting the sect still slowly headed toward collapse.
At this very moment, countless eyes looked toward the enemies outside the formation, all filled with bone-deep hatred.
If eyes could kill, they would have died countless times already.
"Giggle~"
Noticing those gazes, Everlasting Spring True Lord remained unmoved, and an excited smile unconsciously appeared on her face.
"This feeling of slaughtering on such a scale, of holding the lives of tens of thousands of cultivators in my hands..."
"So good!!"
Thinking this, Everlasting Spring True Lord's cheeks reddened slightly, and she became even more excited.
At the height of her excitement, the spell gesture in her hand suddenly changed, and she struck at the "small red sword" floating before her.
Her magical power consumption instantly increased by severalfold.
The red sword trembled, its oppressive aura growing even stronger. Then it shot out another streak of red spiritual light, plunging into the thick thunderclouds above.
The two-colored thunderclouds churned, boundless heaven-and-earth spiritual energy surged, and an ominous, hair-raising aura immediately spread.
Faintly, a red "ball lightning" began to emerge from within.
This Thunder Sphere was only the size of a human head, but the wave of power it emitted made even great cultivators feel a chill down their spines.
"Whoosh~"
In the blink of an eye, before the low-level cultivators could even react, the ball lightning had already streaked across the sky and struck the formation.
"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"
In the next moment, terrifying power exploded outward, and blinding spiritual light filled everyone's vision.
The shockwave spread out, and in an instant the mountains within a twenty-li radius began to collapse, with many cultivators dying instantly as a result.
In the cultivation world, human nature is cold. When high-level cultivators clash, they rarely deliberately avoid low-level cultivators, so not harming the innocent was never even a consideration.
"Crash!"
Under such a terrifying strike, even with the formation's protection, many temples and monasteries within Rushi Temple were still destroyed in an instant.
But they had no time to lament this, and instead looked up in terror.
They saw the formation guarding the mountain gate, that once thick and reassuring golden shield, now covered in dense cracks.
"Crack~"
Then with a sharp crack, the golden shield shattered completely and turned into specks of spiritual light that dispersed.
The formation was broken!
Rushi Temple had a long legacy and deep foundations, and the defense of its fourth-tier high quality formation could not be underestimated. Even if it faced the siege of several great cultivators, it could still respond with composure.
Unfortunately, compared to a divine transformation faction, there was still an unbridgeable chasm.
A fourth-tier high quality formation was ultimately only fourth stage, while the Pure Yang True Treasure bestowed by the Heavenly Thunder Palace ancestor was of fifth stage level.
The enormous gap in foundations created an absolute difference in strength, and thus this tragedy came to be!
"Heh~"
Seeing this, Everlasting Spring True Lord smiled without showing her teeth, her face slightly flushed.