The plan that Heavenly Premier Everwind and Heavenly Premier Cavernous Void came up with was good. However, before they could even attack, a second Ascendant Immortal emerged from the passageway, followed immediately by a third Ascendant Immortal. Then, the fourth emerged as well.

Sensing the roiling blood streams within their bodies and the rising dread, the faces of the two Heavenly Premiers turned pale.

Sou! Sou!

As Patriarch Twin Devices was directing the sword array to kill off the blood cultivators below, he was also keeping an eye on what was happening underground. When he sensed waves of bloody luminescence – with a concentrated and unbreakable quality – emerging from beneath the ground, a panicked look appeared on his face.

“These Earthen Immortals are easy to handle, but those Ascendant Immortals will be a problem. When will the Island Lord come?”

As he considered that, Patriarch Twin Devices stopped killing off the blood cultivators on the surface. Instead, he mobilized the sword array to form a concentrated attack before firing it into the ground. 

At the same time, he also sent Mu Cang a secret vocal transmission to have some Human Immortals lead the Sky Human stage cultivators away from this battle. Only the Earthen Immortals and a number of Human Immortals would stay behind to deal with the blood cultivators.

By then, practically half of the entire Sky Pillars Mountain Range had...