140: Chapter 140 Despair! The righteous path of Qingzhou has been completely controlled by Cao Kun!

Yu Linglong, lying on the couch, lazily rolled over, her purple gauze slipping down half an inch.

“Master is right~” her voice was husky and charming.

“With Master's grand Formation in place, no matter how fiercely those people outside bark, they are nothing more than stray dogs outside a cage.”

Qin Canglan couldn't help but glare at Yu Linglong.

She was the Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect, with thousands of lives on her shoulders; she couldn't be as heartless as this vixen.

Even though she had just had an in-depth exchange regarding the Hehuan Sect Mind-Cultivation Technique with Cao Kun in the Side Hall last night.

At this moment, that mature and dignified majesty of a high-ranking leader still instinctively surfaced.

“That is a Half-step Void Refinement!”

“If the Formation is truly broken, we will all...”

Boom!

A dull, massive explosion erupted from the horizon.

The dark gold barrier above the Hehuan Sect suddenly rippled with a circle of waves.

Outside the mountain gate of the Hehuan Sect.

Flying boats that blotted out the sun hovered above the sea of clouds.

Taiyi Dao Sect, Tianjian Sect, Qingyun Sect...

Along with the Ji Family's warships, they surrounded the Hehuan Sect so tightly that not even a drop of water could leak through.

Dao Tae stepped into the Void Realm, standing at the front of the Formation.

The terrifying pressure of a Half-step Void Refinement caused the space within a hundred-mile radius to faintly distort.

Behind him stood the Grand Elder and Second Elder of the Taiyi Dao Sect, as well as Ji Daoyuan, Chu Qianqiu, and five others at the Early stage of Spirit Severing.

Further back were hundreds of densely packed Nascent Soul Elders and tens of thousands of Golden Core elites.

Killing Intent soared to the heavens.

On the Hehuan Sect's Outer Sect square.

Thousands of low-level Disciples were pale-faced; many couldn't even stand steadily and collapsed directly to the ground.

Even through the Sect-protecting Formation, that Aura of death—like dark clouds pressing down on a city about to crush it—still made them unable to breathe.

“It's over... the entire Righteous Path of Qingzhou has come...”

“That Half-step Void Refinement Old Ancestor from the Taiyi Dao Sect actually took the field personally...”

“Our Hehuan Sect has reached the end of the road today.”

Panic spread through the Sect like a plague.

The few Elders remaining in the main hall were also ashen-faced; some even began to calculate how to sever their own Meridians to die quickly and avoid the pain of soul-searching.

Outside the mountain gate, Dao Tae looked down indifferently at the peaks of the Hehuan Sect.

“Devil Head Cao Kun of the Hehuan Sect, listen up!”

Dao Tae's voice was like a thunderclap, carrying the Spiritual Qi of a Half-step Void Refinement, shaking the mountains and scattering the clouds with falling rocks.

“This old man will only give you ten breaths of time.”

“Withdraw this cowardly Formation and hand over Cao Kun! This old man can show mercy and leave you all with whole corpses!”

The voice echoed through the mountain valleys.

Ten breaths passed.

There was no reaction within the Hehuan Sect. Not a single person came out to answer.

A trace of coldness flashed in Dao Tae's eyes.

He had been in secluded cultivation in the Taiyi Dao Sect for five hundred years, deducing countless patterns of those with anomalous destinies.

When facing such a child of Luck, one absolutely cannot waste words; the opening move must be the strongest killing strike.

“Stubborn and foolish.” Dao Tae's long sleeves whipped violently.

“Elders, heed my command! Follow me and shatter this Formation! Today, we shall trample the Hehuan Sect, leaving not even a chicken or dog alive!”

Before his voice had even faded, lightning flickered in Dao Tae's palm.

The sky suddenly darkened.

A giant handprint spanning thousands of feet condensed out of thin air, its fingertips swirling with the destructive Law of the stars.

With an Aura that crushed everything, it smashed ruthlessly toward the Hehuan Sect's dark gold barrier.

At the same time.

Ji Daoyuan summoned the Ji Family Legacy Magic Treasure, the Mountain Suppressing Seal.

Chu Qianqiu unsheathed the taiyi divine sword.

Over a hundred Nascent Soul Stage Elders simultaneously activated their Lifebound Treasures.

The sky was filled with dazzling, colorful light.

Sword Qi, seas of fire, thunder, and frost converged into a five-colored torrent capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Following behind the sky-blotting handprint, it poured down.

The Hehuan Sect Disciples closed their eyes in despair, waiting for death to arrive.

Bang!

The sky-blotting handprint was the first to strike the dark gold barrier.

Immediately after, the five-colored torrent crashing down from the sky also hit.

However...

The expected earth-shattering explosion did not occur.

On the dark gold barrier, only a few ripples vibrated.

It completely swallowed the attacks.

At the same time.

Inside the imperial palace of ultimate bliss Formation.

The energy swallowed by the Formation, after being converted by the palace core, directly turned into the purest Chaos Yin and Yang Qi.

Drops of grayish-white liquid condensed in mid-air.

“Drip-drop.”

The spiritual rain pattered down onto the Hehuan Sect's square, the Spirit Medicine fields, and the Martial Arts Arenas of every peak.

An Outer Sect Disciple at the Qi Refining stage, hiding in a corner and trembling, was hit on the forehead by a drop of spiritual rain.

The next second,

The Qi Refining Stage Bottleneck that had stuck him for ten full years shattered with a bang.

“I... I've reached Foundation Establishment?”

Splash—

Before he could react, the clouds broke.

A torrential downpour poured down.

“Heavens! What kind of Spiritual Qi is this? It's a hundred times purer than a Top-Grade Spirit Stone!”

“Stop talking! Hurry and meditate! This rain can cleanse your marrow and refine your bones!”

“Holy crap! I've formed my core!”

Inside the barrier, dull booms of Breakthroughs sounded one after another.

The Disciples looked at each other, the fear in their eyes completely gone.

This wasn't an attack on the mountain gate.

This was clearly the Righteous Path Alliance coming to the countryside to do charity and bring everyone warmth!

Over ten thousand Disciples of the Hehuan Sect ran wildly through the torrential spiritual rain, carrying pots, pans, water vats, and wooden buckets.

Some even almost started fighting over spots.

“Move aside! I claimed this brick first!”

“Get lost! You're just at Foundation Establishment, why do you need such a big basin?!”

When the Inner Sect Disciples saw this, their eyes turned red with envy.

They all followed suit, taking out every container that could hold water from their Storage Rings and holding them high above their heads.

Some even lay directly on the ground with their mouths wide open, letting the spiritual rain pour in.

The entire Hehuan Sect had completely turned into a festive carnival scene.

Meanwhile, outside the barrier.

Dao Tae looked at the perfectly intact dark gold barrier, his brow furrowed deeply.

“What a tough turtle shell!” Dao Tae snorted coldly.

“This seat wants to see just how long this Formation can last! Everyone, keep blasting! Wear them down!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The external attacks came in wave after wave, continuous and unending.

The assault lasted for a full half-hour.

Many low-level Cultivators were already pale, their internal Spiritual Qi exhausted.

The Nascent Soul Elders leading the teams were also panting from exhaustion.

They had to take out handfuls of Qi-replenishing Medicinal Pills and stuff them into their mouths, meditating on the spot to recover.

Dao Tae still maintained his posture of pressing down with one hand.

But a layer of fine sweat had already broken out on his forehead.

He, a grand Half-step Void Refinement, had actually been drained of a third of his Spiritual Qi by a single Formation.

“Sect Master Dao...” Ji Daoyuan pointed at the barrier below, “The situation doesn't seem quite right.”

Dao Tae looked down.

Sure enough!

The originally semi-transparent dark gold barrier was not only showing no signs of dimming.

On the contrary, because it had absorbed so much energy, it was becoming brighter and brighter.

Even more bizarrely, although the barrier blocked a clear view of the interior,

The faint fluctuations of Spiritual Qi leaking out were so massive they made one's scalp tingle.

This script is wrong!

The ancient texts didn't write it like this!

Even if this Cao Kun is an anomaly of destiny, it should be that after the Formation breaks, he makes a Breakthrough on the battlefield and kills in all directions.

How is it that this Formation not only can't be broken, but it can also freaking absorb attacks?

Just as Dao Tae was questioning his life choices.

The dark gold barrier suddenly split open in the middle, creating a gap a hundred fathoms wide.

“The Formation is broken!” Chu Qianqiu was ecstatic, shouting at the top of his lungs, “Sect Master is mighty! This turtle shell couldn't hold out!”

Dao Tae also breathed a sigh of relief.

That's more like it; every Formation has its limit.

He was just about to order a charge.

At the gap,

A massive Spirit Beast pulled a luxurious Jade Carriage out slowly.

Upon the Jade Carriage.

Cao Kun, dressed in a Black Robe, stood with his hands behind his back.

And by his side, it could be described as a competition of beauties, each with their own charm.

It was filled with peerless beauties that couldn't be matched by anyone else in the entire Qingzhou.

Yu Linglong, her purple dress trailing on the floor, intimately held Cao Kun's arm.

When her gaze swept over the righteous Cultivators in the sky, her eyes were full of disdain.

Qin Canglan was in her dignified and luxurious Sect Master's gown.

Although she wasn't as clingy as Yu Linglong, her posture standing by Cao Kun's side already made clear the ownership of power within the Hehuan Sect.

Meng Yudie's natural charm was innate.

Leng Qingyue, in her white clothes, looked like a Nine Heavens goddess.

Liu Rumeng wore a red dress, fiery and hot.

Nangong Wan's eyes were even more captivating, as her queenly and gentle temperaments constantly intertwined.

And on their periphery were the dozen or so newly promoted Nascent Soul Elders of the Hehuan Sect, along with over a hundred Golden Core deacons.

This scene,

Directly stunned the righteous Alliance outside.

How could a second-rate demonic Sect have such hidden depths?

With such strength, aside from not having a Half-step Void Refinement overseeing things.

Their mid-to-high-level combat power could practically go toe-to-toe with the Taiyi Dao Sect!

Chu Qianqiu only felt his throat go dry.

He suddenly realized that the Hehuan Sect, which he had viewed as an ant a month ago,

Had already grown into a behemoth capable of swallowing the Taiyi Dao Sect.

And that Cao Kun...

Dao Tae was shocked to find that he actually couldn't see through this young man's cultivation at all!

He only felt a suffocating true dragon coiled within Cao Kun's body, ready to swallow him whole at any moment.

This kind of unknown fear was the most despair-inducing.

Standing on the Jade Carriage, Cao Kun's gaze swept over those terrified and bewildered faces, and he laughed contemptuously.

“Why have you stopped?”

“The Spirit Medicine fields in the back mountain of my Hehuan Sect still need irrigation.”

“Dear philanthropists who have come from afar, hurry up and continue putting in effort.”

These words were like a resounding slap across the faces of all the righteous Cultivators.

The damage wasn't high, but the insult was extreme.

Yu Linglong covered her mouth and giggled, her whole body leaning softly against Cao Kun's shoulder:

“Master, look at how they're sweating from exhaustion. They've probably been squeezed dry; not even a single drop is left~”

Meng Yudie, not to be outdone, followed up sarcastically:

“Oh my, the grand Taiyi Dao Sect only has this much stamina? Truly all show and no substance.”

Chu Qianqiu was so angry he spat out a mouthful of old blood.

“Cao Kun! Don't you dare be so arrogant!”

Chu Qianqiu pointed at Cao Kun, shouting with feigned strength,

“You killed my Sect's Elders and insulted our Saintess. Today, even if we must risk everything, we will slay you!”

“Risk everything?” Cao Kun sneered.

“Since you all like putting in effort so much.”

“Then all of you stay behind and be coolies for my imperial palace grand Formation for the rest of your lives!”

Dao Tae felt uncertain and suspicious; his intuition told him something big was about to happen!

“Retreat, quickly!”

Without hesitation, he directly issued the retreat order.

But it was too late.

The grand Formation of the imperial palace of ultimate bliss was not a passive, dead thing.

The entire barrier, like an inflated balloon, expanded outward at an extremely fast speed!

“What the hell is that thing!”

“The barrier grew legs! It's pouncing over!”

In just the blink of an eye.

The edge of the barrier advanced hundreds of miles!

It not only enveloped the mountains of the Hehuan Sect,

But also all the warships and flying boats of the Righteous Path Alliance, including the Taiyi Dao Sect and Tianjian Sect.

As well as the tens of thousands of righteous Alliance troops—all were completely shrouded within!

Dao Tae stood in mid-air, looking at the layer of the barrier trapping them, his face deathly pale.

He tried to swing a blade of Sword Qi.

The Sword Qi struck the barrier and was instantly absorbed.

Immediately after, a drop of spiritual liquid fell from the top of the barrier.

It landed precisely in the iron pot of a Hehuan Sect Outer Sect Disciple below.

“Thanks to the big shot for sending the spiritual liquid!” the Disciple shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Pfft—!”

Dao Tae, overcome by anger, spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his whole body swaying in mid-air.

And those tens of thousands of righteous Cultivators trapped within the Formation were now all ashen-faced.

They stared blankly at the dome of the Formation inverted over their heads.

Attacking a mountain gate, and in the middle of the fight, they had fought their way into the belly of someone else's Sect-protecting Formation?

What kind of nonsense is this?!

Cao Kun stood on the cloud carriage, looking at this group of high-level Cultivators locked in a cage.

He turned his head and said to Qin Canglan beside him.

“Sect Master, look.”

“With so many free, human-shaped high-level Spirit Gathering Arrays, our Hehuan Sect won't even need to bother digging Spirit Stone mines in the future.”

Yu Linglong