"We're ascending, we're about to ascend." Someone in the sect laughed wildly.
"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment." Others let out terrified cries.
Cang Yin and the others also felt dread in their hearts.
Such a heavenly might was something they could neither resist nor change.
And they,
had learned the answer earlier than the true spirits of the Langya Sect.
After a failed ascension, the entire sect would be annihilated!
Were they to die with the people of Langya Sect?
No, this was impossible!
If so,
then this Langya Palace secret realm was simply an unsolvable one.
In reality, except for a few instances, most people had always left alive.
This secret realm could not possibly let them all die here.
"There should be another twist coming." Feng Yu widened his eyes, "Let's first record everything in front of us!"
Everyone quickly took out their recording stones, intending to capture the scene.
However, they soon discovered that the recording stones were completely unusable here.
They could only try their best to engrave this breathtaking scene into their memories with their own eyes.
Feng Yu gently caressed his eyes, a golden glint flickering in their depths, vaguely seeing a frantic shadow at the highest point of Langya Palace.
"The heavenly secret has arrived! The heavenly secret has arrived! The thousand-year foundation of Langya Sect will be forged in my hands." The Sect Master stood at the top of Langya Palace, arms spread wide, a mad smile on his face.
He waved his hand, "With the blood and bones of demonic beasts, forge a path to heaven!"
Instantly, the sect-protecting formation ignited with a ghostly blue soul flame, and millions of beast spirits in the Demonic Beast Pavilion let out piercing wails. Their souls were forcibly extracted by the Thousand Silks Net and flowed along silver filaments into the Ascension Array.
Langya Palace continued to ascend slowly.
The Heavenly Dao could no longer tolerate such actions.
Bolts of lightning crashed down one after another.
Countless demonic beast lives were sacrificed.
In the end,
it was still not enough!
The Sect Master sneered and activated the Thousand Silks Net again.
This time!
What was absorbed was no longer the lives of demonic beasts, but the lives of all Langya Sect disciples outside Langya Palace!
These disciples were originally still cheering.
The next moment,
their expressions instantly froze on their faces.
Their... everything was also drawn away by the Thousand Silks Net, becoming nourishment for the Ascension Array.
Not just them.
The control range of the Thousand Silks Net spread further and further, incorporating peaks one after another into its control.
Under the extraction of the Thousand Silks Net, all the land instantly turned to scorched earth.
Cang Yin and the others suddenly felt as if life had come to an end. The moment the Thousand Silks Net glowed, they all lost consciousness.
Inside Langya Palace.
Li Shuang was still frantically "shearing wool."
Once she entered this place, she couldn't leave. She knew the situation outside was grand, but since she couldn't interfere for now, she decided to ignore everything!
She would get her "wool" first!
With the power of the Thousand Silks Net, Langya Palace continued to ascend slowly.
The laughter from above grew increasingly frantic.
After an unknown period,
Suddenly,
an incredibly terrifying bolt of lightning descended from the sky!
Li Shuang's eyes narrowed slightly!
The entire Langya Palace was actually split in half by this bolt of lightning.
Now,
she could finally see what was outside!
In the sky, purple lightning filled the air, dark clouds churned up and down ceaselessly, strong winds blew from all directions, and the entire world seemed to be shaking!
What a scene of doomsday!
At this moment,
Langya Palace was infinitely close to the Immortal Realm.
Li Shuang could even see a passage leading to the Immortal Realm.
She saw the powerful figures of the sect desperately rushing towards the passage.
She wanted to watch a little longer.
The next moment,
darkness suddenly engulfed her vision.
By the time Li Shuang reacted,
she was already standing on the square again.
Beside her were a group of bewildered disciples.
"Sister Shuang!" Cang Yin's eyes lit up, and he hurried to Li Shuang's side.
She had been a bit uneasy initially.
But upon seeing Li Shuang, for some reason, the feeling of uneasiness instantly dissipated quite a lot.
Li Shuang quickly glanced at everyone.
In the first round, only fifty of them were left.
Now, these fifty people were all fine, suffering no damage.
While everyone was still startled and uncertain, Lin An's figure appeared in the mist.
He said calmly,
"The first round of screening is over. Now, all of you have two choices."
"One, deduct ten points. Claim the reward for surviving the first round and leave the Langya Palace instance."
"Two, deduct ten points. Enter the second round of screening."
"You have the time it takes for one incense stick to burn to think."
As Lin An spoke, he calmly lit an incense stick.
This incense stick burned incredibly fast.
In just a few breaths, it had already burned down a small section!
Everyone's expressions instantly changed dramatically.
What they were most flustered about was not how to make a choice.
But rather, some of them simply did not have ten points!
"Senior Brother!" A disciple asked tremblingly, "What happens if we don't have ten points?"
Lin An lazily glanced at him, but his words were chillingly cold.
"Those who have less than ten points... eradicated!"
The few disciples instantly collapsed on the ground.
They remembered something and suddenly looked at Li Shuang.
Li Shuang had warned them to go out at night.
But these few had never gone out at night, and nothing had ever happened.
They thought that staying in the disciples' dorms was the safest way to clear the instance. Anyway, they weren't seeking great benefits, only to leave safely.
But now, they understood.
This death calamity had indeed manifested here!
They had been here for three days, but only two days were available for taking missions.
The ten-point mission was not meant for normal people; it was practically just for show.
If Li Shuang hadn't been exceptionally extraordinary, no one would have been able to complete that ten-point mission.
As for the remaining three-point and one-point missions, they had hope of completing them.
However.
Even if they earned the maximum four points a day, they would only have eight points in two days.
If they didn't go out at night to hunt demonic beasts, they simply couldn't gather ten points.
Which was, in Li Shuang's words... a dead end!
And those who had gone out with Li Shuang, they had all gathered ten points, practically coasting to victory!
These disciples who followed Li Shuang couldn't help but look sympathetically at the few who had collapsed on the ground.
Just a different choice led to a different outcome.
Good thing, good thing!
They had made the right choice and clung to the true "big leg."
"First, eliminate the seven people with insufficient points." Lin An said calmly, and sword qi descended from the sky. The bodies of these seven people disintegrated in despair.
Everyone watched this scene, still somewhat shaken with lingering fears.
Just a little bit, and these ten people's fate would have been theirs.
"Sister Shuang, whatever you choose, I'll follow you." Cang Yin looked at Li Shuang.
Li Shuang calmly said, "I choose to enter the second round of screening."
Cang Yin said without hesitation, "Then I'll go with you."
Yan Lie and Feng Yu, who were relatively confident in themselves, also immediately chose to enter the next round.
Most of the disciples, however, were hesitating.
Should they leave with the reward, or challenge fate once more with their lives?
This was not an easy decision to make!