Jiang Family Patriarch.

Seeing Jiang Wencha bringing that person into the conversation, and adding pressure with righteousness, Zhang Tingqiu slightly furrowed his brow and withdrew his aura.

Just as he said, as long as one decides to exert effort to jointly resist the Demon Race, and remains within the boundaries of righteousness, no force has the right to decide the allegiance of a True Man. Because if you try to force a True Man who has condensed True Intent, with a bit of a firm personality, they would truly ignore the disparity in power and explode on you.

At this moment, the Perception of all the True Men quietly focused on them.

——Most of them have little inclination in this matter.

However... Who doesn't love watching a spectacle? Especially a spectacle involving beings of the same tier.

True Men are also humans, and most of them maintain a mindset that matches their outward appearance.

Very quickly, Bai Wu, who was at the center of the incident, broke the silence and said, "Allow me to consider further."

This statement was naturally directed at both sides simultaneously.

Despite his natural disdain for the actions of the three great families, he didn't want to be bound by Great Xia and lose freedom.

Otherwise, Bai Wu would have long joined Great Xia, why bother opening a Daoist School?

"No problem, White True Man, consider it slowly."

Jiang Wencha wasn't angry, he even raised a shallow smile, then disappeared from the original place and reappeared elsewhere.

His recruitment must be sincere, because Bai Wu joining the Jiang Family as an Honored Guest would naturally be the best outcome.

Just like how the Huai Family once tried to recruit the female True Man at Zhen Sheng City Experimental School, even if it didn't succeed, they didn't turn hostile or offend the other party afterwards.

If it doesn't succeed, just delaying Bai Wu from joining Great Xia, or making Great Xia pay a higher price to recruit Bai Wu is also acceptable—this is an open scheme that no one can criticize.

"…"

Thus, the atmosphere among the three True Men slightly turned gloomier.

Kong Guofeng slightly opened his mouth, just about to say something.

However, at this moment, a True Man spoke first.

"Something seems strange."

The speaker was a handsome man in a green long robe, with deep green hair and a Bodhi Leaf mark on his forehead.

The next Master of Rough Peak.

Probably the strongest among all Six-star True Men present...

Lin Qingxuan.

He seemed interested in this Inheritance, or perhaps curious about the gathering of Heavenly Talents, possibly both, so he stayed until today, wanting to observe a bit.

He first glanced at the space rift, then looked down at the exposed bedrock at the foot of Celestial Ladder Mountain, raising his eyebrows slightly.

"Did you previously predict this kind of situation?"

With the finishing of these few words, almost all the True Men sensed some kind of change, their expressions began to change.

"…"

That is...

The Ether filling the heavens and earth.

The Ether that was supposed to slowly flow within the complex grand Cycle of the Tier Seven Secret Realm, began to gather overwhelmingly as if summoned, due to some reason.

Thus, with the Ether's dimensional shift, some sort of change also began to manifest in the material world.

Tremors echoed, and the epicenter wasn't far, merely a few kilometers below their feet.

With time, the tremors grew increasingly intense and marked, as if the entire ground of the Secret Realm was shaking.

The torrents of Ether surged into the meridians of the vast Secret Realm from all directions, as though being extracted by something.

The earth split with fissures, plains undulated and cracked open, and colorful light seeped deeply from those bottomless chasms.

Rumbling————

"…"

Accompanying the earthquake was the howl of wild winds.

In the sky, a phenomenon swiftly formed.

It was… a vortex.

Vast and sweeping, almost obscuring the entire visible sky with a colorful vortex!

The sunlight in the Secret Realm was completely shrouded, and the winds gathered into roaring storms in the air.

In an instant.

The entire mountain... No, the whole nearby plain and forest, except for where the True Men stood calmly, had begun to be enveloped by the torrent-like Ether chaotic flow.

The surrounding view was already rendered into light pollution-like striations, akin to an old TV screen, while the skies and earth blurred their boundaries and details.

And the core of this entire upheaval...

Without a doubt, was right before this mountain!

The entire majestic Celestial Ladder Mountain activated like a fully awakened engine, beginning to engulf the Ether in the heavens and earth.

The True Men changed expressions.

Not amazed at the disaster-like momentum— realy if the thirty-some True Men present all acted together, the momentum would actually be even greater.

What truly amazed them...

This wasn't anticipated!

The Celestial Ladder Mountain, containing Inheritance, in their calculations and scouting, shouldn't possess such functions or abrupt changes!

Moreover, this change had even begun to propagate throughout the entire Celestial Ladder Secret Realm, triggering masses of chain reactions.

Undoubtedly, if this trend continued, the Ether chaotic flow on this plain would form a massive accretion disc due to the entire Celestial Ladder Mountain's engulfing, pulling the Ether across the entire Celestial Ladder Secret Realm bit by bit, resulting in terrifying Ether imbalance, causing various severe repercussions, even possibly irreversible severe damage to the Tier Seven Secret Realm itself.

"This is... activating some kind of function?"

——What function needs so much Ether?

Zhang Tingqiu murmured.

However, the next moment, his aged face suddenly changed color, turning his head, his gloomy eyes fixed intensely on the space rift: "Not good!"

That doorway-like space gap began shrinking at an exceedingly rapid pace!

He instinctively opened his hand, a half-human figure of three meters would appear behind him.

But... someone reacted faster than him.

"Interesting."

Lin Qingxuan's eyes shone with green light, his hands rapidly forming seals.

In an instant, the specter of towering trees emerged, like opening up the heavens and earth, forcibly halting the Ether chaotic flow around the platform, while vines and saplings traversed several meters instantly, forcefully piercing into that void and slowing down its shrinking speed to nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.

The True Men from Great Dream Sect immediately reacted, divine light burst from the vermilion on her brow, and she instantaneously arrived beside the space rift stabilized by Lin Qingxuan.

In a few seconds, with closed eyes, she sensed something, a flash of shock appeared on her face: "Wrong."

Jiang Wencha frowned: "What's going on, what's the situation inside?"

"Can't see clearly, there's practically no gap for True Intent to penetrate, but..."

Her Spiritual Power spread out, allowing all True Men to sense her anxious emotions clearly: "I can feel the time flow rate of this Secret Realm isn't the previously estimated seventeen times of the outside world, it's over five hundred times!"

"Someone is trying to actively close the Secret Realm entrance!"

"This Secret Realm is occupied!"

"This is absolutely not something a Six-Star Peak Inheritance can accomplish! The strong individual from the Otherworld who left it, must have at least Seven-Star Peak level…"

"We… and the Celestial Secret Bureau, were all deceived!"

In an instant.

Except for a few individuals, the vast majority of True Men present had their expressions dramatically changed.

If the variation in the Secret Realm's atmosphere merely brought some confusion and surprise to these True Men.

Then...

The shrinking space rift, together with the words of the True Man from Great Dream Sect named Zhao Qin, made all True Men unable to maintain their calmness any longer.

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