With a loud buzzing sound, a wave of air instantly vibrated out from Zhongli Tingzhou's body.
The fairy spring around him was lifted up half a meter high, and a huge ripple appeared on the water surface, causing the bodies of those who were nearby to sway a few times in the water.
"It's indeed a breakthrough." Everyone in Zixiao Sect showed a look of understanding.
Just as he finished his words, there was another sound, the sound of water splashing rapidly.
Everyone felt the rich energy in the air and were attracted to it.
It was Gao Han, but the way he broke through was different from Zhongli Tingzhou’s, and his vortex became bigger.
A large amount of the immortal spring water seemed to be stirring, but in fact a large part of it was absorbed by him.
Before others noticed this change, a few wandering souls in the fusion stage who were practicing downstream suddenly opened their eyes and looked upstream with their sharp eyes.
"The flow rate of the fairy spring has slowed down." A wandering soul in the fusion stage frowned.
"There are human cultivators making a breakthrough up there." said another one.
"It is impossible for a human cultivator to make such a big noise when he breaks through. It must be an anomaly. Could this be the source of the anomaly in the Immortal Palace this time?"
"Two purple gold nameplates appeared this year. They haven't appeared in many years. It must have been at least nine thousand years."
"The last time two purple gold nameplates appeared, two peerless geniuses appeared in Lingtian Continent. I'm afraid it will be the same this time."
"So, this is why that person deliberately stopped us. He was creating opportunities for these two humans?"
"With three ancestors trying to restrain him, that person still has the energy to target us?"
"Although the Immortal Emperor has fallen, the Immortal Palace was once the property of the Immortals after all. It may not be impossible for him to directly control the Immortal Palace without showing up."
"It's hateful. If we can go up, why should we be afraid of these weak human cultivators?"
"Forget it, practice as soon as possible. We don't have much time. It won't be too late to deal with them later." The first wandering soul that spoke had a voice full of cold murderous intent, and closed his eyes again.
These wandering souls seem to be of one mind, but if something really happens, no one knows who will run the fastest.
Not long after they closed their eyes, the Xianquan space changed again.
A burst of clear bird calls came from the hazy mountain peaks, and birds of all colors flew over in rows.
Colorful rainbow bridges appeared in the sky, and the scene of thousands of birds singing made this ethereal fairy spring space instantly more lively.
After flying a circle, the birds returned to the mountain, and disappeared in the blink of an eye due to the fog.
Looking at Zhongli Tingzhou and Gao Han again, the noise of their breakthrough had subsided, and the fairy spring was flowing quietly around them, just like everyone else.
"Do you think the scene just now was because of Great-Master Zhongli or Great-Master Gao?" Yu Zilang asked curiously.
"Why not both?" Yuan Ran asked.
Yu Zilang was asked this question suddenly. He thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out why he couldn't have both.
"The probability of having both is too low. These birds seem to have appeared when our great-grandmaster had a breakthrough. It is very likely because of our great-grandmaster." Feng Xinxing said lightly.
"That makes sense." Several people nodded.
Jiao Yan opened his eyes and glanced at them with cold eyes, "If you don't want to practice, you can go to the side and watch for us. Don't let anyone get close."
"You wish." Yu Zilang and Pei Zhenghai shouted at the same time.
"Then shut up."
It's no big deal if both of you shut up.
"No, it seems it's not over yet." Feng Xinxing's voice suddenly sounded.
People from other sects didn't notice anything wrong, but they were closer and felt it more clearly.
Jiao Yan opened his eyes again, frowning as he looked at the two of them. "Their breakthrough has not stopped, and their aura is increasing at an extremely fast rate."
"It seems we can't slack off anymore." Feng Xinxing said, and immediately entered into a state of meditation.
Jiao Yan followed closely behind. Both geniuses felt a sense of crisis as their cultivation was originally two realms higher than the other two.
Yu Zilang and Pei Zhenghai looked at each other, and then began to practice in tacit understanding.
It was indeed not over yet. Gao Han himself felt it. After breaking through to the great perfection, he found that the Chaos Spirit Root had not stopped, and his body was still absorbing the Immortal Spring at the same speed.
The meridians were feeling swollen, painful and tearing, and without knowing when, they had become like a rushing river, with a large amount of spiritual energy flooding them, as if there was an inexhaustible power.
"No wonder the wandering souls below are trying their best to enter the Heavenly Palace. The Immortal Spring Space is indeed worthy of its reputation. It has jumped two levels at once, and one of the levels is the most difficult threshold to break through. I'm afraid no one has ever experienced this."
Gao Han pondered secretly in his heart. He felt that Zhongli Tingzhou's aura beside him had become more condensed, and he had also made a breakthrough.
With their own ulterior motives, in the blink of an eye, they had been practicing in the Xianquan space for half a month.
During this half month, everyone has made a breakthrough. Those who can enter the Way of Ten Thousand Immortals are all the geniuses and prodigies of the Lingtian Continent. They are not lacking in comprehension, but just lack the resources to break through.
On this day, the Xianquan space suddenly vibrated, and the frequency became higher and higher.
Everyone was awakened by the vibration.
"What happened?"
"Everyone, look below. Those wandering souls in the fusion stage have left the Xianquan space."
Everyone walked to the edge of the upstream and saw that the wandering souls had retreated to the square outside the Xianquan space. A dozen wandering souls in the fusion stage were looking at them coldly.
"We are doomed. These wandering spirits are guarding outside. If we go out, we will die."
"I don't want to go out. I don't want to die."
"The Xianquan Space is chasing people away. I'm afraid we have no say in this."
Panic instantly filled everyone's hearts, overshadowing the joy of the breakthrough.
"If we had known this, we wouldn't have coveted the Immortal Spring Space. Even if we break through the realm of cultivation, even if we catch the treasures of the immortals, what's the use if we can't take them out!"
"Shut up!" Pei Zhenghai looked impatient. He touched the wine gourd at his waist, but didn't find it. Then he remembered that his gourd had been confiscated long ago.
"It seems that we have to go out. The wandering souls outside are watching us closely. I'm afraid it's very dangerous." Gao Han looked at the wandering souls in the square from afar.
He was suddenly startled and remembered something, "Come to think of it, how long have we been in Wanxiandao?"
"Almost a month." Zhongli Tingzhou replied while calculating.
"A month? That should be almost the time for Wanxiandao to close." Gao Han's eyes flashed with a gleam.
"You mean, we can use the Wanxiandao to forcibly send people out and leave here?" Feng Xinxing, who was standing aside, heard their opponents and immediately thought of the same idea.
"That should work, so now we need to calculate how much time is left before Wanxiandao closes."
"There is only daytime here, no night, so it's hard to be precise to the minute and second." Jiao Yan shook his head and said.
"That's right. We can't grasp the time more accurately. If we are any step slower, we may die at the hands of the wandering souls here." Lei Xinyue also spoke.
Even if they have broken through to the Spirit Transformation Stage and are not even at the initial stage of cultivation, they will still have only one outcome when facing off against a Fusion Stage cultivator.
"I know." Gao Han said suddenly, "There are only ten minutes and fifty seconds left before the one-month deadline."
Everyone looked at him in great surprise, but no one asked him how he knew that. They just thought he was just very sensitive to time.
"How do you know?" Zhongli Tingzhou asked without hesitation.
Everyone pricked up their ears immediately.
Gao Han stretched out a hand and spread out his fingers. On his palm was a watch. He was able to determine the time based on this watch.
The length of a day in Lingtian Continent is different from that on Earth. Here, a day has thirty hours, with fifteen hours each for day and night.
In order to be more precise, he refined a new one according to the internal structure of the watch. Even Zhongli Tingzhou didn't know about this because he suddenly came up with the idea when he was bored one day.
"What kind of magic weapon is this? It's so precise." Yuan Ran looked curious.
Zhongli Tingzhou sneered, "You are surprised by what you have seen. This is a watch."
Gao Han put the watch away. "Okay, let's not talk about this. Although there are still a little more than ten minutes left, we should be teleported out soon. There will be seven or eight minutes left. If these wandering souls in the fusion stage want to kill us, it may not even take a minute."
"Can't this fairy spring space last a little longer?" Several fellow disciples said worriedly.
"It's unlikely. If we want to hold off the rest of the time, we must work together and come up with a specific solution," Gao Han said.
"I'll go tell the other sects." Feng Xinxing immediately went to find Gan Mulan, Wen Hongru and others and explained the current situation to them.
"Do you think they will work together?" Zhongli Tingzhou raised the corner of his mouth, seeming pessimistic.
"Unless they want to die." Gao Han said coldly.
Wen Hongru and the others really didn't want to die, so they agreed to Feng Xinxing's proposal without much hesitation.
Representatives from all the major sects and forces immediately gathered together.
"I have a question. How do you know exactly that Wanxiandao will be closed in ten minutes? What if you lie to us, won't we die unjustly?" Chen Binyu sneered. He didn't believe Zhongli Tingzhou and the others.
These people wanted to kill them, so how could they be so kind?
"The lives of Gao Han and I alone in Zixiao Sect are more precious than the lives of everyone in your sect, not to mention the lives of others." Zhongli Tingzhou looked at him with a smile, "Besides, are your legs just for show? Can't you run away when you encounter danger?"
"You!" Chen Binyu was angry.
"What do you mean by 'you'? You couldn't even beat me outside the Wanxian Dao, let alone now. I can crush you to death as easily as crushing an ant." Zhongli Tingzhou stared at him with increasingly weird eyes. "Why do I have to use such a complicated way to trap an ant when I have such a convenient method? You seem to be teasing me. Am I that kind of person?"
"Pfft." Yu Zilang and Pei Zhenghai laughed out loud without any hesitation.
Gao Han glanced at him. He lied without thinking. This is not what he said when he was acting.
"Okay, let's get down to business. I have a plan."