Accompanied by countless unjustly fallen souls, they fell upon the body of the sacred beast, the snow leopard.
Everyone was horrified to discover that the size of the snow leopard began to gradually shrink.
Its cultivation level and power started to be sealed drop by drop.
The leopard's eyes were full of fury, but it could not unleash any of its divine powers.
"We've fallen into the trap."
The great elder of the Litang Sect, coming to his senses, spoke bitterly.
"This whole plan prepared over millennia was to confront the snow leopard ancestor."
As long as the snow leopard ancestor continued protecting the Litang mountain range,
the Yinming Sea army, even if it attacked the mountain range, would be repelled by him, who mastered the advantages of terrain and timing.
Only by eliminating the snow leopard ancestor would Yinming Sea have a true chance of victory.
Seeing more and more demonic beasts and cultivators approaching, despair took hold of everyone's hearts.
Fighting was impossible to win.
Running away was even more impossible.
Everyone instinctively looked at Wang Yuan, their pillar of support.
Wang Yuan naturally understood what they meant.
With a bitter expression, he slightly nodded while looking north.
The one in charge of guarding the northern formation was his ambitious martial uncle, Ji Cheng.
After the initial shock, he also understood.
That uncle of his no longer spared any means to usurp power.
At this point, there was no other choice.
The only way to break this situation: summon the emperor.
On the Nine Heavens continent, common people believe in various gods; cultivators, however, believe in their own power.
But in the Litang mountain range, even cultivators revere a single god.
The Great Emperor Dingzhen.
Wang Yuan raised his gaze toward the direction of the Litang Sect.
"I have three sins: I didn't exterminate the sea demons, I didn't restrain Ji Cheng, I didn't protect Litang."
When he finished, he took out a cigarette, lit it, placed it in his mouth, inhaled deeply, and then exhaled a ring of smoke.
The smoke ring condensed for a moment under the water, and suddenly the entire Yinming Sea was divided into two.
The sea of clouds in the sky also split in two, and a ring of smoke slowly descended from the sky.
When both smoke rings overlapped, a dense mist began to form around Wang Yuan.
His face became blurry within the fog.
His aura also began to turn strange.
The snow leopard, oppressed by countless unjust souls, suddenly opened its eyes wide and stared fixedly at Wang Yuan, letting out a roar full of emotion.
Members of the Litang Sect also regained consciousness and, one after another, kneeled excitedly while shouting:
"Disciples salute the ancestral patriarch!"
Wang Yuan, or rather, the Great Emperor Dingzhen, slightly nodded in response to his descendants.
With a kind smile, he walked toward the snow leopard, and instantly the countless unjust souls vanished.
The restrictions and seals on the leopard also dissipated.
Immediately, it ran to the Great Emperor Dingzhen, rolled on the ground, and showed its belly as a sign of affection, with a look full of tenderness.
For a creature so respected in the Litang Sect and so feared by the Yinming Sea to the point of devising a ten-thousand-year plan,
to show such affection, it could only be toward its master: the Great Emperor Dingzhen.
It is said that in his early days as a cultivator, Emperor Dingzhen saved the snow leopard during its Qi refinement stage, and since then they lived together, facing all kinds of hardships, with a bond deeper than that of any immortal couple.
Emperor Dingzhen smiled, crouched to stroke the leopard's belly, and called softly:
"Zhi Shi."
The leopard immediately emitted purring sounds from its throat.
Only then did the members of the Litang Sect realize that the true name of the ancestor leopard was... Zhi Shi?
"Old friend, when will you ascend to the Celestial Realm to reunite with me? Without you, dear 'Cheese Leopard,' the sky is very boring."
Said Emperor Dingzhen with a slight smile.
The leopard whimpered twice, with a somewhat sad and pained look.
For a demonic beast, ascending was... too difficult.
"It doesn't matter, I will wait for you."
Emperor Dingzhen gently patted the leopard's belly, and his gaze turned to the cultivators and demonic beasts still approaching relentlessly.
These beings were of various shapes and sizes.
With a single look from Dingzhen, all those yellow eyes, densely gathered, watched him and his group from the dark depths of the sea.
"Testing their horses."
Dingzhen let out a sarcastic laugh, extended his palm, and pressed it downward.
In an instant, the entire ten-thousand-mile sea dropped several meters.
All the demonic beasts and demonic cultivators in the sea died instantly.
This scene
made the cultivators present in the Litang Sect feel a tingling sensation on their scalps.
The Great Emperor Dingzhen, without even needing to descend personally, is already this powerful?
No wonder that in those years, with his mere strength, he oppressed the Shadow Sea until it was breathless.
But after these demonic beasts and cultivators died, everyone clearly felt the appearance of a terrifying aura.
A pure blue seawater began to slowly condense in human form within the sea.
Finally, it transformed into a young man with a gaunt face.
The young man wore a magical blue-water colored robe, standing and looking at everyone.
His aura kept rising incessantly.
And the snow leopard next to the Great Emperor Dingzhen immediately bristled its fur, fixing its gaze on this old adversary.
"Hm? You think you're invincible and dare to brag in front of me? Ten thousand years of cultivation, and you are no more than this."
The Great Emperor Dingzhen gave a cold smile.
What a Shadow Sea lord, planning for so long, and his ultimate goal was to use me to clear his obstacles?
After killing so many demonic beasts and demonic cultivators,
this person's level had already ascended from the Great Ascension Realm.
"You have ascended, what can you do to me?"
The Shadow Sea lord sneered, extended his hand, and caught the water membrane that held everyone trapped, which quickly dissipated, returning to his hand to become a sword.
Half the Shadow Sea condensed into a sword.
The force of a single strike, isn't it capable of splitting mountains and parting seas?
Dingzhen, who descended as a divided soul, also did not possess the cultivation of an Immortal Emperor, and his level could be considered equal to this Shadow Sea lord.
But being an Immortal Emperor of a generation, how could he be at a disadvantage?
When they fought, Dingzhen maintained absolute superiority from beginning to end, firmly pressing this Shadow Sea lord who had broken his Realm.
Members of the Litang Sect watched this summit battle without blinking.
As long as they learned even a small part, the benefits for their future practice would be extremely surprising.
While these two powerful ones fought, in the deepest part of the sea bottom,
Tang Yu moved at maximum speed through the seabed.
This sea is unfathomable, and when the others' battle began, he headed down, having already spent nearly three hours.
If it weren't for Situ Yu's body still retaining a cultivation level in the Divine Transformation Realm, with only the Core Realm he wouldn't have been able to dive so deep.
Upon arrival, no trace of demonic beasts could be seen.
For demonic beasts, the deepest zone of the sea is also forbidden territory.
Seeing a red light and a warm aura coming from the bottom,
Tang Yu breathed a sigh of relief; he had finally arrived at his destination.
With vast stretches of red magma spreading across the seabed,
Tang Yu directed his gaze to the center of that magma.
There was an underwater canyon, where magma flowed constantly.
Tang Yu's figure transformed into a lightning bolt, striking with surprising speed inside and deepening to the bottom of the canyon.
After half an hour more,
Tang Yu finally reached the deepest part of the canyon.
In the depths, Tang Yu saw a huge natural treasure.
It consisted of 108 large sea eyes forming a natural treasure.
The seawater absorbed into the treasure, when flowing out again, already contained the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The source of spiritual energy in the Sea.
Exactly this formation!
To find this, Tang Yu used his network of contacts to investigate countless things, and finally, after thorough analysis, found this place.
Throughout the Sea, besides him, probably only the Sea Lord knew this site.
A natural treasure like this, to destroy it at least requires power
at the Great Ascension Realm.
With Tang Yu's current strength, destroying this formation is an impossible dream.
But polluting this source, that is his specialty.
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