The thick black fog, like a ferocious beast, continuously extended and retracted its tentacles, attacking the checkpoint.
Countless cultivators scrambled to flee, while many others remained on the city walls, their faces unwavering as they watched the approaching darkness...
The speed at which this black curtain moved was comparable to that of a Mahayana cultivator flying at full speed.
Someone always has to stay behind to cover the retreat.
"boom"
When the black wall was still a hundred miles from the checkpoint, the city wall formation activated, and energy projectiles rained down on the black mist.
But these black mists were formless and intangible; when the energy projectiles struck them, not even a ripple was created.
"Stop attacking! Activate the energy defense function at full power!"
At a command from Lu Hongguang, the person in charge of the garrison, the light on the city wall surged once more.
Sure enough, the black mist finally stopped in front of the energy shield.
"It seems to be working!"
"The city wall's energy source is immortal stones and earth veins... it should be able to hold it off!"
Just as the people who stayed behind were happy,
The black fog blocking the way ahead gathered more and more.
The black color also became increasingly deep.
Like lacquer, like ink...
"Sizzle...drink...."
"What...what is that?"
The black mist condensed into liquid, transforming into countless ghostly faces that stared at the crowd on the city wall with eerie eyes from afar.
"Whoosh..."
"Whoosh..."
These ghostly figures seemed to be sentient, suddenly rushing in from outside the energy shield.
"puff..."
The protective shield made a slight sound, like a bubble being punctured by a needle.
"Pfft pfft..."
The ghostly figure rushed into the protective barrier for dozens of miles, then was neutralized by the energy of the immortal stone and disappeared.
But as more and more dark, ghostly figures charged forward, the shield's energy weakened.
The originally soaring orange light gradually faded...
It's unstoppable!
Lu Hongguang turned his head and saw that the area behind the city wall was already surrounded by black mist that had passed through both sides of the pass.
"Gentlemen... today, I'm afraid we won't escape our fate..."
After he finished speaking, a look of horror appeared on everyone's faces.
Those present were all from the battle halls of the nine top sects. Facing tangible and substantial enemies, they were fearless.
But they were completely powerless against the black mist.
"So be it... I just wonder what the cultivation world will become in the future?"
"We've followed in the footsteps of the ancients, so we descendants aren't cowards!"
Fewer than a hundred people remained on the city wall. They were gathered together, chatting casually.
"At the speed at which this black mist is moving, it will probably take less than three months for the entire cultivation world to fall and be in dire straits. And yet there are still people who think that the Divine Eye Immortal Venerable is the real evil god... How laughable, how laughable!"
"It is indeed laughable, but we ambushed two groups with the Divine Eye Immortal Venerable... Those people had actually already succumbed to darkness, and all their magical power had been converted into dark energy."
"Converting dark energy... that person has completely changed; what's the difference between them and someone who's dead?"
...
As they spoke, the black mist was already not far from the city wall.
"I, Xiang Wentian of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect! If there are any survivors... please tell my descendants that I am not a coward!"
Having said that, the man leaped off the city wall and suddenly accelerated towards the darkness...
"A smile crosses the river, books and sword hanging; a hidden dragon lies deep beyond the nine heavens!"
"boom!"
The light from the self-destruction of the Mahayana cultivator swept away the darkness within a hundred miles!
"Interesting! So even evil energy is afraid of cultivators self-destructing! I'll have one too!"
"I, Chen Zhengying of the Creation Sect, will take my leave first!"
"The myriad spirits are created through the birth of all life, their golden bodies forged from green lotus and white lotus roots!"
...
"boom!"
The evil aura dissipated again...
"My turn! Zhang Ran of the Myriad Transformations Demon Sect!"
...
Apart from a few areas guarded by fourth-level Immortal Venerables, this scene occurred almost simultaneously outside hundreds of defensive city walls.
Only those at the fourth level of the Immortal Venerable realm or higher could hold off the dense black mist for a period of time, allowing them to retreat calmly with their own people after everyone else had gone...
As Ling Fengxue watched the black mist completely envelop the city walls and then surge towards the land like a tidal wave, she felt utterly powerless.
Given this situation, even if Ye Feng came, he probably couldn't do anything about it...
No one could have imagined that Wugensheng would create this loophole in the Heavenly Ladder Formation by undergoing tribulation in the Wheel Star Sea!
Unless they completely restart the ladder system and adjust it again, they simply cannot plug this loophole.
But the ranked ladder battles have only just ended...
Even if it were to reopen, it would take nearly a thousand years for the positions of the major sects to be adjusted.
What to do... what to do?
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Ling Fenghan sighed deeply and stood up.
"It's my turn!"
"Wait... You're just a newly promoted second-level Mahayana cultivator, let's talk later!"
"I am a Mahayana cultivator from the Ice God Sect! I'm at the very front of the Mahayana early stage!"
"The Ice God Sect is no longer number one, so you should wait for us to go first!"
The two argued as they flew off towards the outside of the wall.
"Then let's go together!"
"The Netherworld Path, a den of countless ghosts, leads to the true immortality of the underworld! Zhao Yun of the Ghostly Sect!"
"Ling Yu ascends to immortality, opening up heaven and earth; a single sword's light chills nineteen provinces. Ling Fenghan of the Ice God Sect!"
Endless darkness enveloped the two of them.
These dark forces, upon contact with the skin, immediately invade.
This dark power is purer and darker than the dark energy within the previous evil cult.
Once invaded, it directly alters one's mind and nature, causing them to go astray and become possessed by an evil god.
For a cultivator, even their consciousness is not under their control.
What difference is there between that and being dead?
Ling Fenghan watched the black mist encroach, but there was not a trace of fear in his eyes.
"I've lived in fear for hundreds of years, I've truly had enough..."
His body gradually lit up.
The internal magical power reversed, and in a short moment, the invading black mist vanished as if illuminated by the blazing sun.
At this moment, magical power and divine sense ignited simultaneously.
Once the meridians throughout the body have been reversed, it will be a self-destructive act of martyrdom!
Ling Fenghan closed his eyes, savoring the last moment of tranquility.
This world is now in that kid's hands...
Time passed second by second, but Feng Han did not realize that he had disappeared.
The reverse flow of magical power in the meridians seemed to have stopped.
Not only that, because of the reverse flow of magical power, the damaged meridians are miraculously recovering!
"What...how...?"
Ling Fenghan opened his eyes and looked at the scene before him, almost in disbelief.
The black mist that had shrouded the entire coastline had completely retreated into the Chaotic Star Sea...
No, it didn't recede, it was dissolved!
High in the sky, a figure like a god of war stood.
It radiated a light as bright as the sun, completely dissolving all the black mist that had invaded the central continent!
"It's him! He's here!"
"Divine Leaf...Invincible! Invincible Immortal Venerable! Ye Feng!"
"Invincible Immortal Venerable! Ye Feng!"
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