This formidable column of light, formed of Nether Demon Spiritual Qi, possessed a diameter surpassing that of the Verdant Leaf Giant Peak.
For a fleeting moment, it appeared as though a dark cosmic pillar had penetrated both the heavens and the earth of the Immortal Martial Continent!
"What! Such a thick concentration of Nether Demon Spiritual Qi!!" Ji Mingxiu's countenance altered drastically. He swiftly ingested the pill offered by Jiang Chen, and bellowed, "We must engage in combat posthaste!"
"Strike!" Yao Zong and the rest also consumed their half-pills in sequence. Their battle prowess surged immediately, and they rushed toward Dong Yuanzheng with reckless abandon.
Xu Xinlan along with the remaining cultivators from Jade Lake Heavenly Temple's Dao Palace were seething with fury, all of them assailing Dong Yuanzheng and his allies with unbridled force.
...
Simultaneously, within the confines of the Purple Heaven Holy Land, the expansive landscape of the Holy Land was shrouded beneath an immense luminary barrier. This defensive grand formation was born out of merging the primary outer-sect formation and the inner-sect formation of the Purple Heaven Holy Land into a unified entity!
Across the expanse of the Holy Land, hundreds of thousands of disciples stood ready for battle. Each individual had their unique responsibilities - those tasked with maintaining the formations, those delegated to launch attacks, and those entrusted with healing the wounded...
Cultivators of various realms were prepped to engage adversaries of their respective realms.
Junior disciples would certainly refrain from squandering their energy in tackling high-level demonic beasts.
Advanced cultivators wouldn't revel in the exhilaration of eliminating low-level demonic beasts but would instead strive to battle demonic beasts of a comparable level as much as possible.
At this juncture, disciples were either positioned at the densely congregated array of nodes or stationed within the protective grand formation.
Through the dense formation barrier, they observed the eerily quiet world beyond.
"Gulp." A disciple couldn't resist swallowing, evidently quite anxious.
Yet, this disciple represented merely a fraction.
The entirety of the Purple Heaven Holy Land now resembled a tightly wound bowstring, strained yet brimming with potent energy!
Abruptly, the sky grew dim, and the pristine clouds morphed into ominous black tempests, whirling relentlessly.
Daylight and darkness swapped places in an instant, everything within the heavens and the earth was immersed in shadow!
"The Great Dao of Darkness!!" Mo Yu arose, his divine sense allowing him to perceive everything in the external world distinctly. "Such a mysterious power of the Great Dao! This must be a foe from the Dao Palace realm!"
"The demonic beasts, they're approaching!" Jiang Chen, too, had observed the external situation, his eyes glittering with a chilly intensity.
"Roar!!" The very next moment, from an indeterminable direction, a startling roar of a demonic beast reverberated across the heavens and earth.
Immediately thereafter, pillars of light pierced through the earth, rocketing directly into the sky.
The majority of these beams were a sinister blend of crimson and black, appearing incredibly menacing at first sight.
Accompanied by the eruption of these Nether Demon Spiritual Qi columns, formidable demonic beasts erupted from the ground, hurtling towards the Purple Heaven Holy Land like a rampaging tidal wave!
"All disciples, launch your assault!!" An Elder from the Deacon Hall of the Holy Land sounded the rallying cry!
Whirl, whirl!
One disciple after another unleashed their onslaught.
Thunder, flames, potent winds, heavy water... varied attacks wove a dazzling yet perilous magical canopy, instantly clashing with the onrushing demonic beasts.
Crash!!
It resembled the collision of two kilometers-high waves in an immense ocean.
Clusters of radiant spells detonated in a brilliant explosion.
One by one, the demonic beasts were either pulverized instantly or flung high into the sky, viciously ripped apart!
The heavens and the earth were engulfed in a shower of gore and blood in that fleeting moment!
Yet, the demonic beasts, dispersed as far as the eye could see, had entirely lost their rationale, devoid of any fear of life or death!
They pressed onward, willingly sacrificing their lives to drain the energy of the disciples from the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
Furthermore, not all demonic beasts were vanquished in this wave of attack.
Those that perished were merely the demonic beasts below the Heavenly Origin realm, numerous yet inconsequential.
Nonetheless, any demonic beast that had attained the Heavenly Origin realm managed to withstand the inaugural spell wave, creeping closer to the Holy Land's defensive formation.
But the Holy Land had been prepared from the outset.
Having endured two demonic beast tides, they had already honed their skills in defensive warfare.
The second wave of spell assault was promptly discharged.
This time, the attackers comprised entirely of cultivators beyond the Heavenly Origin realm!
One by one, formidable cultivators exceeding the Heavenly Origin realm initiated their assaults, crafting an even more potent spell sky-cover, cascading down onto the demonic beasts.
Boom!
Countless demonic beasts bellowed, morphing into myriad fragments of flesh and blood.
However, some demonic beasts managed to penetrate the tsunami-like spell sky-cover, colliding harshly against the sect's Grand Protective Formation!
Crash!
Wave-like oscillations detonated from the formation barrier, causing the proximate earth to quake!
Some junior disciples situated at the core of the formation involuntarily spewed blood, teetering precariously on the edge of collapse.
"Swap the formation maintainers!" An Elder in charge, who was fervently launching attacks, bellowed.
Immediately, a considerable number of substitute disciples supplanted the pallid-faced injured disciples, ensuring the formation continued to sustain its apex condition.
"Roar, roar, roar!" Just at that moment, amid the successive horrifying beastly roars, a Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast, laden with countless spells and covered in wounds, charged straight up to the formation.
"Destroy!!" Elder Liu Xiong's eyes were ablaze with lethal intent.
An immensely powerful Great Dao of Fire erupted from the formation, morphing into a heaven-engulfing, sun-eclipsing fire dragon, surging towards the Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast.
In an instant, the fire dragon ascended, and a rain of heavenly fire descended haphazardly!
The Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast also unleashed its innate power, and it happened to also be the Great Dao of Fire!
A frightening explosion of extreme temperatures ensued, instantaneously transmuting the adjacent battlefield into a sea of magma.
Numerous demonic beasts were vaporized before they could even emit a cry.
"Roar!" Liu Xiong's fire dragon issued a feral roar, entwining with the Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast, luring it away to a distinct location.
Wherever the two titanic beasts traversed, everything was reduced to cinders!
From various other directions, Dao Comprehension realm demonic beasts ceaselessly emerged, madly hurtling towards the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
The Dao Comprehension realm Elders of the Purple Heaven Holy Land, including the likes of Xie Zhen, also sprang into action in succession, fiercely bombarding their selected targets!
Simultaneously, Jiang Chen hovered in the sky above the Purple Heaven Holy Land, visible to all below.
By this point, he had become another cornerstone of the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
His mere presence there bolstered the spirits of everyone present.
'Still not making an appearance, huh!' Jiang Chen surveyed the earth below, his divine sense feverishly probing every inch of the terrain.
He was searching for the aura of the Dao Palace realm demonic beast, but he had yet to detect it.
Without the emergence of the Dao Palace demonic beast, Jiang Chen could not abandon the safety of the grand formation to absorb qi and blood energy.
Mo Yu had to restrain it before he could venture forth.
Otherwise, Jiang Chen would likely find it challenging to withstand even a casual strike from the Dao Palace realm demonic beast.
Simultaneously, in the profundities of the dark underground, a malevolent voice whispered, "Unexpectedly, this Purple Heaven Holy Land was prepared well in advance!"
Another voice, dripping with suspicion, asked, "Could there be a Third Step cultivator force backing them?"
"Impossible, this continent has been abandoned for so many years, how could there still be Third Step cultivator forces paying heed?"
"The initial investigation also indicated that this continent has been isolated from the outside world for hundreds of thousands of years."
"So, they must have surmised some of the truth through some residual documents."
The initial malevolent voice, punctuated by an unmistakable tone of ambition, "Humph, in any case, this continent will become my, Long Tianlu's, personal playground! Hehehe!"
The air grew cold as sinister laughter echoed through the vast underground caverns.
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This formidable column of light, formed of Nether Demon Spiritual Qi, possessed a diameter surpassing that of the Verdant Leaf Giant Peak.
For a fleeting moment, it appeared as though a dark cosmic pillar had penetrated both the heavens and the earth of the Immortal Martial Continent!
"What! Such a thick concentration of Nether Demon Spiritual Qi!!" Ji Mingxiu's countenance altered drastically. He swiftly ingested the pill offered by Jiang Chen, and bellowed, "We must engage in combat posthaste!"
"Strike!" Yao Zong and the rest also consumed their half-pills in sequence. Their battle prowess surged immediately, and they rushed toward Dong Yuanzheng with reckless abandon.
Xu Xinlan along with the remaining cultivators from Jade Lake Heavenly Temple's Dao Palace were seething with fury, all of them assailing Dong Yuanzheng and his allies with unbridled force.
...
Simultaneously, within the confines of the Purple Heaven Holy Land, the expansive landscape of the Holy Land was shrouded beneath an immense luminary barrier. This defensive grand formation was born out of merging the primary outer-sect formation and the inner-sect formation of the Purple Heaven Holy Land into a unified entity!
Across the expanse of the Holy Land, hundreds of thousands of disciples stood ready for battle. Each individual had their unique responsibilities - those tasked with maintaining the formations, those delegated to launch attacks, and those entrusted with healing the wounded...
Cultivators of various realms were prepped to engage adversaries of their respective realms.
Junior disciples would certainly refrain from squandering their energy in tackling high-level demonic beasts.
Advanced cultivators wouldn't revel in the exhilaration of eliminating low-level demonic beasts but would instead strive to battle demonic beasts of a comparable level as much as possible.
At this juncture, disciples were either positioned at the densely congregated array of nodes or stationed within the protective grand formation.
Through the dense formation barrier, they observed the eerily quiet world beyond.
"Gulp." A disciple couldn't resist swallowing, evidently quite anxious.
Yet, this disciple represented merely a fraction.
The entirety of the Purple Heaven Holy Land now resembled a tightly wound bowstring, strained yet brimming with potent energy!
Abruptly, the sky grew dim, and the pristine clouds morphed into ominous black tempests, whirling relentlessly.
Daylight and darkness swapped places in an instant, everything within the heavens and the earth was immersed in shadow!
"The Great Dao of Darkness!!" Mo Yu arose, his divine sense allowing him to perceive everything in the external world distinctly. "Such a mysterious power of the Great Dao! This must be a foe from the Dao Palace realm!"
"The demonic beasts, they're approaching!" Jiang Chen, too, had observed the external situation, his eyes glittering with a chilly intensity.
"Roar!!" The very next moment, from an indeterminable direction, a startling roar of a demonic beast reverberated across the heavens and earth.
Immediately thereafter, pillars of light pierced through the earth, rocketing directly into the sky.
The majority of these beams were a sinister blend of crimson and black, appearing incredibly menacing at first sight.
Accompanied by the eruption of these Nether Demon Spiritual Qi columns, formidable demonic beasts erupted from the ground, hurtling towards the Purple Heaven Holy Land like a rampaging tidal wave!
"All disciples, launch your assault!!" An Elder from the Deacon Hall of the Holy Land sounded the rallying cry!
Whirl, whirl!
One disciple after another unleashed their onslaught.
Thunder, flames, potent winds, heavy water... varied attacks wove a dazzling yet perilous magical canopy, instantly clashing with the onrushing demonic beasts.
Crash!!
It resembled the collision of two kilometers-high waves in an immense ocean.
Clusters of radiant spells detonated in a brilliant explosion.
One by one, the demonic beasts were either pulverized instantly or flung high into the sky, viciously ripped apart!
The heavens and the earth were engulfed in a shower of gore and blood in that fleeting moment!
Yet, the demonic beasts, dispersed as far as the eye could see, had entirely lost their rationale, devoid of any fear of life or death!
They pressed onward, willingly sacrificing their lives to drain the energy of the disciples from the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
Furthermore, not all demonic beasts were vanquished in this wave of attack.
Those that perished were merely the demonic beasts below the Heavenly Origin realm, numerous yet inconsequential.
Nonetheless, any demonic beast that had attained the Heavenly Origin realm managed to withstand the inaugural spell wave, creeping closer to the Holy Land's defensive formation.
But the Holy Land had been prepared from the outset.
Having endured two demonic beast tides, they had already honed their skills in defensive warfare.
The second wave of spell assault was promptly discharged.
This time, the attackers comprised entirely of cultivators beyond the Heavenly Origin realm!
One by one, formidable cultivators exceeding the Heavenly Origin realm initiated their assaults, crafting an even more potent spell sky-cover, cascading down onto the demonic beasts.
Boom!
Countless demonic beasts bellowed, morphing into myriad fragments of flesh and blood.
However, some demonic beasts managed to penetrate the tsunami-like spell sky-cover, colliding harshly against the sect's Grand Protective Formation!
Crash!
Wave-like oscillations detonated from the formation barrier, causing the proximate earth to quake!
Some junior disciples situated at the core of the formation involuntarily spewed blood, teetering precariously on the edge of collapse.
"Swap the formation maintainers!" An Elder in charge, who was fervently launching attacks, bellowed.
Immediately, a considerable number of substitute disciples supplanted the pallid-faced injured disciples, ensuring the formation continued to sustain its apex condition.
"Roar, roar, roar!" Just at that moment, amid the successive horrifying beastly roars, a Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast, laden with countless spells and covered in wounds, charged straight up to the formation.
"Destroy!!" Elder Liu Xiong's eyes were ablaze with lethal intent.
An immensely powerful Great Dao of Fire erupted from the formation, morphing into a heaven-engulfing, sun-eclipsing fire dragon, surging towards the Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast.
In an instant, the fire dragon ascended, and a rain of heavenly fire descended haphazardly!
The Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast also unleashed its innate power, and it happened to also be the Great Dao of Fire!
A frightening explosion of extreme temperatures ensued, instantaneously transmuting the adjacent battlefield into a sea of magma.
Numerous demonic beasts were vaporized before they could even emit a cry.
"Roar!" Liu Xiong's fire dragon issued a feral roar, entwining with the Dao Comprehension realm demonic beast, luring it away to a distinct location.
Wherever the two titanic beasts traversed, everything was reduced to cinders!
From various other directions, Dao Comprehension realm demonic beasts ceaselessly emerged, madly hurtling towards the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
The Dao Comprehension realm Elders of the Purple Heaven Holy Land, including the likes of Xie Zhen, also sprang into action in succession, fiercely bombarding their selected targets!
Simultaneously, Jiang Chen hovered in the sky above the Purple Heaven Holy Land, visible to all below.
By this point, he had become another cornerstone of the Purple Heaven Holy Land.
His mere presence there bolstered the spirits of everyone present.
'Still not making an appearance, huh!' Jiang Chen surveyed the earth below, his divine sense feverishly probing every inch of the terrain.
He was searching for the aura of the Dao Palace realm demonic beast, but he had yet to detect it.
Without the emergence of the Dao Palace demonic beast, Jiang Chen could not abandon the safety of the grand formation to absorb qi and blood energy.
Mo Yu had to restrain it before he could venture forth.
Otherwise, Jiang Chen would likely find it challenging to withstand even a casual strike from the Dao Palace realm demonic beast.
Simultaneously, in the profundities of the dark underground, a malevolent voice whispered, "Unexpectedly, this Purple Heaven Holy Land was prepared well in advance!"
Another voice, dripping with suspicion, asked, "Could there be a Third Step cultivator force backing them?"
"Impossible, this continent has been abandoned for so many years, how could there still be Third Step cultivator forces paying heed?"
"The initial investigation also indicated that this continent has been isolated from the outside world for hundreds of thousands of years."
"So, they must have surmised some of the truth through some residual documents."
The initial malevolent voice, punctuated by an unmistakable tone of ambition, "Humph, in any case, this continent will become my, Long Tianlu's, personal playground! Hehehe!"
The air grew cold as sinister laughter echoed through the vast underground caverns.
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