Bai Shengyi felt a slight discomfort in her eyes.
She averted her gaze, "Old Ancestor Lou, is something amiss?"
The Lou family's old ancestor hesitated, seemingly reluctant to speak.
The Lou family had been experiencing a series of unfortunate events, and it was always the promising younger generation who were affected. While Lou Wan was a girl, Lou Changxing was the future heir of the Lou family. They couldn't simply abandon him like this, could they?
Seeing his silence, Bai Shengyi frowned slightly, "Excuse me, could you please move aside?"
The Lou family's old ancestor lowered his face, just about to speak, when he heard the whistling sound of wind.
It was faint, yet piercingly noticeable, as if heralding a change.
Immediately after, Patriarch Zhan's distinctive booming voice resonated throughout the area.
"Holy hell! Is it truly a great opportunity?"
In an instant, the sky lit up.
No, it wasn't the sky's light, but pure spiritual radiance emanating from the spiritual energy surging into the Divine Revelation Continent.
The dazzling light had barely illuminated the boundless darkness when everyone, before they could even relish the return of their sight, was overwhelmed by a vast and potent wave of spiritual energy!
"Such concentrated spiritual energy! Such pure spiritual energy!"
The cultivators closest to the shattered boundary felt their hearts swell with joyous disbelief.
"Hahaha... I, Mei Jin, have actually broken through the Golden Core stage to become a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!"
"Urgh... I've finally broken through! I've actually become a Nascent Soul cultivator!"
"Me too, I've broken through..."
In a mere moment, the cultivation bottlenecks that had long confined most of the people present began to loosen. Some advanced by one tier, others by two. Most astonishingly, a female cultivator from the Ximen family directly entered the mid-stage of the Soul Transformation realm, leaping forward by two and a half tiers!
Everyone could feel the spiritual energy in the air intensify manifold. Their bones creaked, as if about to burst from the sheer density of the spiritual energy.
Pain, yet strangely coupled with exhilaration, as they couldn't resist the overwhelming joy and excitement!
They had broken through!
The curse of no one breaking through the Golden Core stage for hundreds of thousands of years had been shattered!
They could live for several more centuries... No! Why hadn't their lifespans changed? Why was there no heavenly tribulation descending?
Soon, everyone noticed these two crucial questions.
A wave of anxiety rippled through the crowd.
But there was no one to answer them.
At this moment, Bai Shengyi's gaze fell upon the scene ahead.
The boundary had shattered, the Sanghai Secret Realm had crashed, and the area outside Anping City was now a wasteland. Where the boundary had once stood, it was now desolate. Yet, at this very moment, spiritual light shimmered, though the darkness had not yet retreated. Within the flickering light and shadow, figures could be seen leaping.
"There's something behind the spiritual light!" Bai Shengyi exclaimed immediately.
But it was already too late.
"Rumble..."
A horde of Void Beasts charged forth, their hooves thundering like lightning. Behind them followed a group of white-robed cultivators with stiff expressions and unidentified high-level spirit beasts.
The high-level spirit beasts were roughly equivalent to human Soul Transformation cultivators. With leopard heads, deer ears, and human bodies, they bore a striking resemblance to the mantis demon cultivators from the Sanghai Secret Realm.
Upon seeing all the cultivators present, the Void Beasts, white-robed cultivators, and leopard-headed demon cultivators charged forward like sharks scenting blood!
Their numbers were vast, and their intent was clearly hostile!
"Begone!" Daoist Qing Lan stood in the air, his stern reprimand carrying immense killing intent as it surged towards the horde of spirit beasts and cultivators!
"Bang! Bang!"
A large wave of spirit beasts was sent flying!
However, the sheer number of spirit beasts pouring out was overwhelming. As soon as the ones in front fell, new ones immediately took their place.
The Tang family patriarch, caught off guard, had an arm torn off by a leopard-headed demon cultivator!
"Ah!" The Tang family patriarch, having only recently advanced to the early Nascent Soul stage, was no match for this group of spirit beasts. He hurriedly turned to Old Ancestor Wei for help.
"Grandpa Wei, save me!"
With the death of the Tang family's old ancestor, the Tang family was now closest to the Wei family.
However, Old Ancestor Wei was struggling to protect himself and couldn't attend to him. He only managed to pull him aside, narrowly escaping the immediate danger.
But within moments, the Tang family patriarch's other arm was also torn off!
It wasn't just the Tang family patriarch. The eighteen noble families, the three royal families, and the people from the Divine Revelation Academy were all being pushed back, suffering heavy losses!
The Golden Core cultivators of the Divine Revelation Continent were utterly despairing!
They were supposed to be the most powerful beings on the continent, yet this group of cultivators and spirit beasts, who had appeared from nowhere, were so ferocious, barbaric, and bizarre that they could hardly resist them!
Shengyi looked at the Void Beasts and suddenly felt as though she had forgotten something, but couldn't recall what.
"Little junior sister, be careful!" Qian Ying quickly pulled Bai Shengyi behind her, swatting away a white-robed cultivator with a backhand strike. She then flicked Bai Shengyi's forehead, "At a time like this, why are you still spacing out?"
Bai Shengyi gave a sheepish smile, feeling guilty, and raised her hand to join the fray, only to be stopped by Qian Ying.
"You've just recovered from a serious illness. Stay behind your senior sister. I can still protect you."
Qian Ying not only said this but also acted upon it, diligently shielding Bai Shengyi.
As a result, Bai Shengyi found herself the most idle among them, even having the energy to observe everyone's situation.
Daoist Qing Lan, by himself, managed to contain this sudden battle within this specific space, blocking a large portion of the white-robed cultivators. The Tang family patriarch was already kneeling on the ground, groaning in agony, on the verge of death. The Mei and Lou families had clustered together, their combined efforts managing to fend off some of the attacks...
"Are these white-robed cultivators ghost servants?"
Qian Ying shook her head, "They are puppets."
"Ah? So many? Where did they come from?"
Bai Shengyi's question was also the question of Li Tingyun and the others on the other side of the boundary.
With the shattering of the boundary, not only did the Divine Revelation Continent witness celestial phenomena, but so did the Divine Revelation World.
Due to the previous celestial phenomena, the well-prepared major sects immediately dispatched their forces to the site where the phenomena had occurred – the very place where the Eight Trigrams Yin-Yang Eye had appeared before!
Who would have thought that just as the boundary shattered and everyone was attempting to cross it, a large group of white-robed cultivators and spirit beasts suddenly surged forth!
They recognized the Void Beasts, and they had also seen the leopard-headed demons. But where did those white-robed cultivators come from?
"Dean Qin, don't you think you owe everyone an explanation? When did the Divine Abandoned Continent develop such wicked things?" Li Tingyun fended off a white-robed cultivator and questioned sternly.
For cultivators at their level, these white-robed cultivators were not particularly difficult to deal with. A single palm strike was more than enough. But the crucial point was that these white-robed cultivators were incredibly bizarre!
When killed, they seemed to feel no pain and could get back up. If one tried to smash them to smithereens, their bodies seemed to be forged from some sort of mineral. Even Mahayana cultivators couldn't damage them easily.
This was truly horrifying!
As everyone knew, the Divine Revelation World had been unable to ascend to the next realm, making Mahayana cultivators the ultimate fighting force.
Now, if even Mahayana cultivators found these white-robed cultivators troublesome, what level of strength must the people who refined these puppets possess?