At this moment, the sect leader of the Luoxia Sect and nine elders were gathered in the main hall, and the customers were also among them.

Just as the sect leader was about to speak, a series of screams echoed through the sect and into the main hall.

A wail, like that of a demon, echoed within the Luoxia Sect.

Upon hearing this wailing sound, the expressions on the faces of the sect leader and the customers were no longer as relaxed as usual.

Just as the sect leader was about to take out the Sunset Wheel from his ring and prepare to activate the Sunset Array, array patterns appeared on the azure stone bricks beneath Sunset's feet.

As Luo Xia activated the wheel, the array patterns burst forth, with countless runes leaping out as the array was activated.

As he watched the runes continuously covering his body from beneath his feet, Luo Xia unleashed his Tribulation Transcending stage cultivation, his face grave as he stared at the magic array that had trapped him.

Just as the customers nearby were about to help Luo Xia, they saw her like this.

A whooshing sound rang out, and the customer looked at the four people around him in disbelief. The four elders, including the Grand Elder, surrounded the customer.

The customer, looking at the four acquired magical weapons stuck in his heart, only had time to turn around and shout at Gu Changqing.

"Run!"

Then the four magical artifacts stuck in the customer's heart emitted a piercing sound, and the customer's body turned into a pool of dirty water along with that sound.

Gu Changqing wanted to move, but the aura emanating from the Tribulation Transcending Realm cultivators filled the surroundings.

At this moment, Gu Changqing was as if he were sealed in place by a series of magical artifacts, unable to move even a finger.

Just as Elder Danfeng, his eyes red, charged toward him with a post-natal magic weapon.

As Gu Changqing stared at the sword tip so close to his eyes, a sense of death welled up in his mind.

Am I going to die?

At that moment, Gu Changqing had only one thought in his mind, but just as the sword was about to pierce his heart...

The surrounding space rippled, and then a refined-looking man caught the sword.

The person who arrived was Gu Nan, who arrived just as Gu Changqing was about to perish.

After Gu Nan knocked Elder Dan back with a single punch, he turned to Gu Changqing and said:

"Changqing, the Northern Region is in chaos, and demons have emerged. You must go to the Southern Region immediately."

After calmly finishing speaking, Gu Nan looked at Gu Changqing's immobile body, picked her up, and threw her out of the main hall.

Once Gu Changqing stood atop the sect's main peak and left that domain, his body could move normally again, and then Gu Changqing's divine sense swept over it.

The Luoxia Sect was now littered with the corpses of its disciples, their faces showing fear, as if they had suffered great terror before their deaths.

Besides the corpses, groups of disciples were either fighting against a strange creature or fighting alongside other disciples.

Meanwhile, arrays were set up on the ground, preventing these disciples from flying or teleporting via magical artifacts.

All they could do was fight back against their former comrades and unknown creatures. Gu Changqing also tried to open the ring, only to find that it was like a secret realm, and the ring could not be opened here either.

The space seemed to be imprisoned. At this moment, a figure rushed out of the main hall and flew straight towards Gu Changqing. The person's eyes were red. It was Elder Dan who had just made the move.

Meanwhile, Gu Nan, who was in the main hall, looked at Elder Dan, but ignored the attacks from the six elders behind him and rushed towards Gu Changqing.

Just as Elder Dan was about to strike Gu Changqing, Gu Nan, covered in blood, stepped in front of Gu Changqing to block her.

Gu Nan's face remained calm as always, but his eyes gradually dimmed. After leaving behind a single sentence, he looked down.

"Live on."

Gu Changqing looked at Gu Nan falling in front of her with a calm expression. There was no fear of death, only regret that the path to immortality had not been completed.

Looking at Elder Dan who was right in front of him, Gu Changqing still did not intend to give up. With a calm expression, he quickly took out the pocket watch he had obtained before from his pocket with his left hand.

He crushed it with force. The moment the pocket watch shattered, everything within a hundred meters of Gu Changqing froze, including Elder Danfeng who was right in front of him.

However, this stillness only lasted for two breaths before Elder Dan resumed his movements and charged at him again with his sword.

The aura emanating from the magical artifact made Gu Changqing close his eyes slightly, but then he smiled.

"My life is mine to take."

Gu Changqing held the Soul-Severing Sword tightly in his hand. The Soul-Severing Sword, sensing its master's thoughts, trembled violently, as if it were terrified of something.

Simply place the Soul-Severing Blade in front of him and pour all the spiritual power in his body into it.

"burst."

With a loud bang, the gray shockwave generated by the shattering of the acquired resentment magic weapon engulfed Gu Changqing and Elder Danfeng.

The instant the airflow enveloped Gu Changqing, her body vanished into thin air, just as snowflakes falling into water.

However, Gu Changqing did not notice that a wisp of yellow-gold light in his divine sea carried a fragment of his true spirit to that unknown place.

Just as Gu Changqing detonated the Soul-Severing Detonation, similar situations occurred in the Northern Region, affecting not only the ten major sects but also other forces.

Within days, the major powers in the Northern Region had either been possessed by demons or fallen beneath them.

Several days later, the darkness that had covered the Tian Tu Continent dissipated, and the sun reappeared above the heads of all living beings. However, the mortals and low-level cultivators in the Northern Region were unaware that the rulers of the Northern Region were no longer the so-called Ten Great Sects.

Apart from Zhen Tianchou, the other nine sect leaders stood on Wenxin Mountain. They were no longer in their usual ethereal state, but exuded an aura of evil, with their eyes reddening.

They knelt on one knee, their faces contorted with madness, shouting towards the crimson array at the center of the nine figures:

"Evil gods live forever, demon gods descend to earth."

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