"Open!"
Boom!
Holy Leader Yuanming's body was covered in celestial light, which illuminated the earth.
Holy Leader Chiyan waved his hand, and a stream of scarlet lava formed behind him.
Sect Leader Ziyang had been carrying a quasi-celestial-grade treasure on his back. A small golden cauldron flew out and grew larger.
Holy Monk Sanzang put his hands together and chanted Buddha teachings.
The experts joined hands, and their unparalleled divine might headed toward the killing array, only to be annihilated.
In the killing array, blood-colored gravestones appeared, and piles of skeletons emerged from the graves.
As the skeletons walked, blood steles appeared. Above the clouds, the entire sky was filled with blood steles.
The blood steles suppressed everything. Even Holy Leader Chiyang, Holy Leader Yuanming, Sect Leader Ziyang, and Holy Monk Sanzang's combined attacks were all suppressed by the blood steles, and endless wails seemed to echo in the air.
Mountains of corpses and rivers of blood were formed as celestial blood seeped out of the steles.
"Are those blood tombs? Could it be the legendary Celestial-devouring Cemetery?"
It was said that the Celestial-devouring Cemetery could even devour celestials.
"No, it's not the Celestial-devouring Cemetery. If it was, we would've been devoured long ago. Rather, let alone us, even a true celestial would have to give way. Those are probably just blood steles from the Celestial-devouring Cemetery."
Everyone was speculating, but even so, to them, the whole matter was still a huge killing trap.
"What do we do?"
"It's impossible to ascend now. We have to find a way to leave this place alive."
The celestials discussed with each other and prepared to break out.
As for the quasi-celestials, War Gods, and Martial Gods below the Dao Entry realm, they could only be suppressed by the blood steles. One by one, they were covered in blood, swallowed, strangled, and even their souls were absorbed.
It was too terrifying and miserable.
Who would have thought that this Dao discussion conference was not an opportunity, but a premeditated murder?
"Who's coming to save us?"
"Respected celestials, please lower your heads and look. The mortals who believe in you are suffering a calamity."
Countless people were praying that the true celestials of the celestial world could hear their voices and look down to help them solve this killing tribulation.
The voices of the crowd gathered, and faith converged.
A strand of faith did manage to break through the blood steles' killing array, rushing into the heavens and reaching the celestial world.
Through the Dao domain of the celestial world, a celestial that was a thousand feet tall lowered his head.
However, when he did so, the crowd could only see a pair of blood-red eyes, a sinister and terrifying smile, and a body full of viciousness and cruelty.
With just a glance, everyone's hair stood on end.
The crowd was in despair.
How was this a celestial? The other party was clearly a devil.
The path was not to the celestial world, but the devil world!
A conspiracy, a huge conspiracy. All of this was a conspiracy.
Who was behind this?
The group was in despair.
The killing array was still slowly shrinking, and dozens of days passed inside the killing array as if they were years. Outside the killing array, some cultivators who were unaware of the situation were still rushing over one after another.
From the outside, everything looked beautiful. The scenery of Xiangya Mountain was picturesque. Many cultivators were discussing the Dao in harmony.
However, everything changed the moment they stepped into the mountain. The scenes that the cultivators outside had seen were those that had happened dozens of days ago. Now that they had entered, they immediately fell into the trap and a killing calamity.
Despair.
Endless despair consumed the hearts of the thousands of surviving cultivators every day.
"Who's going to save us?"
"Who can save us?"
Amid the voices of dying hope, the cultivators of the Wu Dynasty finally arrived at Xiangya Mountain under the leadership of Empress Xia Zhuyuan
"The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name. The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth. The Named is the mother of creation. Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery. By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real," Patriarch Dugu was reciting the truth of the Great Dao he heard back when he was discussing Dao with Chen Xuan.
As he stepped into the killing array, the Dao sound dispersed the blood mist for miles.
Empress Xia Zhuyuan held the Celestial Suppression Flag and also arrived, shrouded in celestial light.