NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1268: Arrival
At first, the Cave Abyss Sect felt disappointed, but after understanding the situation clearly, they knew they couldn't blame the Lotus Seed Skill and the Heavenly Pillar Array.
However, the two most effective methods against evil energy could only contain the spread of demonic qi. The Cave Abyss Sect found itself at a loss, not knowing how to resolve the issue.
"What should we do now? Containing the spread of demonic qi is only temporary, because with the presence of the Demon Vein, the demonic qi is no longer rootless and can continuously accumulate."
An Earth Immortal Elder said with an anxious and uneasy expression, "If a day comes when we can no longer contain it, the demonic qi might completely break out, and by then, the entire surrounding thousand miles, or even the whole Cave Abyss State, would suffer!"
"Couldn't we ask those few grandmasters to intervene? Can't they resolve this matter?" another elder asked with a hint of hope.
"No! The laws mastered by the grandmasters have no restraining effect on demonic qi."
The Sect Leader shook his head regretfully. Upon discovering the problem, he immediately transmitted a message to ask a few elders, but all the answers he received were disappointing.
"Is there really no solution? We can't just stand by and watch as the demonic qi keeps spreading and polluting the world, can we?"
Everyone understood the reasoning, but the problem was, if even the Heavenly Immortals couldn't solve it, they were powerless too!
"Laws such as thunder and fire, which are extremely yang and rigid, can restrain demonic qi. Why not try gathering all the disciples in the sect who have learned these two kinds of divine abilities or who have comprehended related laws to see if they can solve the Demon Vein?"
The other elders couldn't think of another way, so they could only try a desperate measure, hoping it might work.
With the strength of the Cave Abyss Sect, they could naturally gather a large number of disciples, and for the sake of caution, they even conscripted a large number of loose cultivators.
So when they acted, it was grand and imposing, some driving magic artifacts, some flying through the air, some riding spirit beasts, the spirit light they emitted covered the sky and obscured the sun, and wherever they passed, all beings bowed low.
"Listen to my command! Cast your divine abilities!"
Several Earth Immortals presided over the situation, their voices like rolling thunder, clearly reaching the ears of every cultivator.
"Release!"
At the command, countless divine abilities poured out, with various colors of thunder and fire weaving through the sky, painting it brilliantly.
But this flood, like a heavenly river pouring down, contained deadly danger!
Everything it passed instantly dissolved, even space trembled, and eventually, it crashed into a mass of contained demonic qi.
Pop, crack—
It was as if cold water was poured into a boiling oil pot, instantly exploding and splattering.
Under the countless impacts and suppression of divine abilities, the demonic qi rapidly evaporated. Approximately an hour later, it completely vanished, leaving only a devastated and shattered land.
"Did it succeed?"
An Earth Immortal used his divine sense to probe the center, his face stiffening instantly, and said in great disappointment, "The Demon Vein is still continuously producing demonic qi."
All they had done was to purify the existing demonic qi in the outside world; essentially, nothing had changed!
"What should we do about this?"
The Sect Leader, as if he had thought it through long ago, responded without hesitation, "First use a formation and the Lotus Seed Skill to suppress the Demon Vein, preventing it from producing too much demonic qi and starting to pollute the nearby world."
He never thought this method could succeed from the start; the best result was as it was now, because as long as the Demon Vein issue wasn't resolved, purifying demonic qi countless times would be futile!
Disciples of the Cave Abyss Sect stepped forward and acted according to the Sect Leader's instructions. In just a short while, countless white lotuses grew, forming on top of and around the Demon Vein.
"Let's go back and discuss countermeasures," the Sect Leader said immediately and took away all the Earth Immortal Elders.
The remaining cultivators could only return on their own.
At Mount Cave Abyss, after the Sect Leader and a group of elders sat down, he spoke very directly, "The only solution now is to ask the Li family for help."
"Li family?"
Some of the elders were puzzled. What could a mere Human Immortal family accomplish? And the Sect Leader even used the word 'ask'!
But some elders seemed to have thought of something and said, "Is the Sect Leader intending to ask that Li family cultivator who practices the Purification Principle to intervene? But can he solve the problem?"
"Not long ago, the sect's secret agents found out that a similar situation occurred at the Sea Clan's Sea Eye, and the cultivator who solved the pollution of the Sea Eye by demonic qi was from the Li family, named Li Zhirui!"
The Sect Leader laid out his reasoning; given that even a more complex situation like a Sea Eye could be resolved, then a mere Spirit Vein should be no issue at all!
"If that's the case, then why not quickly go to the Li family and ask Li Zhirui to come and help, solve it early to avoid future troubles."
If the Sect Leader knew, how could he not have acted, and instead wasted time here? Is it possible that he just wanted to see the commotion caused by the cultivators in cleaning the demonic qi?
"But now the problem is, Li Zhirui is not at the Li family; he has gone out traveling in search of breakthrough opportunities."
"Could it be that the Li family and that Li Zhirui are deliberately hiding, unwilling to come and help us? They just want to watch us decline continuously." Some elders speculated with the greatest malice towards others.
"He truly is not in Shanhai State, and we do not know his whereabouts."
So the plan to rely on Li Zhirui to resolve the Demon Vein ended before it even began; they had to come up with a solution on their own.
"We still have to seek external assistance, see if other forces have methods to solve the problem, and also consider the Celestial Court on the Divine Path, who for the sake of maintaining the world, should not refuse to join forces with the sect."