465 Departure (1/2)

The descending of the Spiritual Realm brought an everlasting impact on Planet Earth.

Firstly, the collision of the Spiritual King Comet resulted in a terrifying earthquake and tsunami which destroyed almost half a continent. Billions of civilians were killed in this disaster.

If not for the fact that Planet Earth's will had forcefully interfered to restore the biodiversity of the planet, they might be a destructive cycle of life.

Even so, this huge disaster was an opportunity for the planet to start anew and the survivors were barely surviving.

However, there was still another problem - the remaining Immortal Cultivators!

The Spiritual Realm had escaped in time but had left its Immortal Cultivators on Planet Earth. It could be due to the fact that it did not have enough time to rescue these Immortal Cultivators or it could be that it was worried these Immortal Cultivators might have been infected with the spiritual aura of the Demonic Heart Realm and would potentially become coordinates for the realm. Therefore, it was willing to sacrifice them like how a lizard would sacrifice its tail in times of danger. Until now, there were still too many Immortal Cultivators from the Spiritual Realm left on Earth.

These people were being sacrificed. To speak the truth, they could still help in the development of this realm, for instance, by increasing the gene pool.

However, to completely assimilate them into the realm, their leader must go.

This was especially so for the leaders at the 5th Tier. They had to die in order for their followers to obediently assimilate into the new realm.

However, what was embarrassing was that there were no natives strong enough to take out the leaders and Planet Earth had to once again seek Fang Yuan for help.

Fang Yuan had no qualms about taking up this task.

After all, Ancestor Red Cloud and the 3 other Area Beings should be the most powerful among them all and the remaining were all at the 4th Tier. Even if an Area Being were to hide among them, Fang Yuan was confident of taking them out.

...

In the East Ocean.

”Master has orders to gather all the spiritual materials and rebuild our sect on the remains of Spiritual King Island!”

A group of Immortal Cultivators flew across the ocean as they wielded their swords and there were looks of worry and despair in their eyes. They were the ones being left behind and had nowhere else to go, which explained their worries.

”Brothers and sisters! This is only a temporary retreat by the Spiritual Realm. The realm will never give up on us!”

Seeing this, a young man in white robes started to encourage everyone. ”There have always been dangers in exploring worlds and it is only normal for the leading warriors to be trapped in other realms. Take for instance the leading warriors of Star Moon Sect. They were once trapped in a foreign realm and were only rescued 80 years later!”

The Spirit Realm had deployed a single army for this invasion and everyone in the group were familiar with each other. With this thought, all of them felt less worried and nodded their heads in agreement.

”Although the source of this realm is rich in energy, they do not have enough spiritual energy.”

One of the female Immortal Cultivators twitched her eyebrows. ”After observing through the Heavenly Spiritual Scope, I realised that the spiritual energy in this realm is dropping at an alarming rate. I'm afraid that our future will be doomed...”

”The few leaders have requested of us to gather the materials to cast the Spiritual Capturing Array on the Spiritual King Island! Using it as the core and complement it with other arrays like the 4 Emblems Spiritual Lock and the 8 Directions Spiritual Gatherer, and we should be able to last for another 10 years...”

The young man let out a sigh.

Although the Spiritual King Island was destroyed, it had formed an archipelago of islands.

These were made from the essence of the Spiritual Realm and had natural spiritual energy in them. Using these islands as a foundation and together with the arrays, even if the will of Planet Earth were to continuously absorb spiritual energy, they would still be able to last and survive for a period of time.

Who knows, the Spiritual Realm might just descend upon Planet Earth Realm even before the 10 years was up.

This was their final hope!

'It's a pity... these are merely hopes...'

As the young man looked at his increasingly excited brothers and sisters, he did not dare to reveal the truth to them.

'The few leaders have already used up their Realm Breaking Talismans to establish a connection with the Spiritual Realm. This realm, Planet Earth, has already been deemed plagued by the Demonic Heart Realm and for the safety of everyone, the Spiritual Realm will never establish a connection with this realm for eternity... All of us are stuck here forever!'

With that single thought, the young man was almost brought to tears.

At this point in time, a streak of light flashed past and arrived on the Spiritual King Island in the middle of the ocean.

”Whoosh!”

From afar, the skies became darker and thunder roared. There were shockingly loud winds and glitter of sword essence.

”This... is someone invading our camp?”

The young man and a few others witnessed the scene and were utterly shocked. ”Who dares to invade us?”

On the island, an illusionary shadow slowly materialised, forming the image of outer space with 12 glittering stars, illuminating the entire island like how a full moon would.

”Is this... the 12 Stars Universal Array?”

Witnessing this scene, the young man remained in shock. ”The adversary must be someone of the level of an ancestor for all 12 leaders to attack at once! No wonder they didn't need our help.”

To an Area Being, any Immortal Cultivator of the 3rd Tier and below were merely sacrifices. Only those at the 4th Tier and above with the power of the arena could put up any meaningful resistance.

However, only another Immortal Cultivator of the 5th Tier would be able to stand any chance against these Area Beings.

”We do not have bad blood with each other. Why are you still pushing us to a dead end?!”

At this point in time, one of the stars in the array started to glow brilliantly as it sent out an angry and desperate spiritual will.

”The few of you are mere lackeys. Do you think I would give you a chance to regain your powers and not deal with you now while you are weak?”

From mid-air, an illusionary silhouette of a human started to laugh hysterically as streaks of lightning crackled across the night sky.

”Hmph!”

All of a sudden, a muscular giant appeared behind this silhouette as though he had just walked out of a fairytale. The giant struck a single punch at the array.

”Whoosh”!

The array started to crack!

With a single punch, the flow of the universe started to rewind and dissipate swiftly. What remained were the 12 stars, of which all of them were feeling desolated.