Chapter 354: To Take All Living Beings Hostage
"An Eternal Heavenly Venerable is not an Immortal Heavenly Venerable. Of course they can fall.” Ji Hongdao shook his head with a light chuckle.
“Besides, the owner of this severed bluestone hand was an ancient Heavenly Venerable, one who reached that realm through the old methodology. In those days, attaining Eternal Heavenly Venerable status was nowhere near as difficult as it is now, where one must defy the principles of heaven and earth. Their strength was naturally a cut below what we see today. Being killed, perishing in a calamity, all of it is entirely possible."
Ji Hongdao spoke as if it were a trivial matter. Not allowing the assembled cultivators to dwell in their shock, he soon shifted to giving orders.
“This is an urgent mission. There isn’t much time for rest. Today, Huangfu and Shangguan will first familiarize everyone with the precautions to observe within the Eternal Immortal Fortress. Formal construction begins tomorrow.
“Your task for phase one is to construct the Tianxuan Soul-Locking Array outside the Roaring Abyss.
“After we finish relocating that newly discovered Lost Domain, we will construct the second Soul-Locking Array.
“Once the arrays in both locations are complete, we can return.
“Ah, one more thing…” Ji Hongdao paused, retrieved a Mini Tianxuan Mirror from his robes, and projected a list of names and their rank above the crowd.
“You should know that the competition among those contributing to the universal implementation of Tianxuan Soul-Locking Arrays has officially begun.