After a period of silence, the Great Priest of the Demon Clan, Yu, was the first to voice his support. He could roughly guess Xingyue's reasons for doing this. Because of his mother, he naturally had some goodwill towards the Ying Tian Beast, so he was willing to support her actions.
After Yu's support, the others also made up their minds and nodded, then split up to return to their sects and bring the disciples and elders on the list to the Desolate Domain.
The Desolate Domain was the area with the thinnest spiritual energy in the entire cultivation world, but it was also said to be the closest place to "heaven."
Array bases were meticulously constructed by everyone, piece by piece. Most of these people were old, with insufficient vital energy, but it was precisely because of this that they yearned more to save the world from decline. Only in this way could they hope to advance further, and even extend their lifespans.
For this reason, they were naturally willing to sacrifice the lives of a few unrelated individuals. After all, from the moment they embarked on the path of cultivation, they could only continue forward accompanied by mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
The Spirit Replenishing Array was extremely troublesome to set up. Furthermore, its formation method had been destroyed once many years ago, and the remaining fragments, even after repair, were far inferior to their original state.
The price paid by the casters was extremely high, so for the first time in many years, its appearance was to undertake a world-saving endeavor.
Initially, these disciples did not know what they were supposed to do, only thinking that the sect's high-ranking officials had something for them to handle. However, upon arriving at the Desolate Domain, their expressions visibly turned extremely uneasy.
In the cultivation world, the Desolate Domain had another name: the Dead Domain. It was a place that countless vicious individuals were forced to go to.
Yu also ordered his people to bring many demon disciples who had made mistakes. The punishments for demons had always been heavier than those for cultivators. Their crimes in the Demon Realm would only warrant death, so where they were punished did not matter much to them.
Hundreds of disciples had their souls shattered by the executioner's sword, one by one, and were thrown into a massive pit created by dozens of Divine Realm cultivators.
Above the pit was the Spirit Replenishing Array. The array continuously absorbed blood energy and spiritual power from below, and the array pattern even began to emit a faint blood-red color, unsettling the mind.
However, it was still far from enough. The cultivators in the Desolate Domain who had once rejoiced at escaping with their lives became their primary targets.
Under the direct intervention of Divine Realm powerhouses, these individuals were utterly defenseless. Their so-called exquisite escape techniques were nonexistent in the eyes of these powerful beings. A simple domain confinement could easily capture them.
As the last person in the Desolate Domain was thrown into the array, the Spirit Replenishing Array was finally completed.
Xingyue did not hesitate for too long and leaped directly onto the array. Looking back at the hopeful cultivators behind her, her eyes seemed to betray a hint of reluctance, but her resolve quickly strengthened.
Because, from some unknown time, the status of that spirit beast had far surpassed all other matters.
She formed hand seals, and the spiritual energy within her body continuously replenished the array. In the end, the spiritual energy within her body was completely depleted, and the array began to absorb Xingyue's blood and vital energy. Xingyue's expression remained unchanged, but her face became excessively pale due to blood loss.
The array was finally saturated before it could completely drain Xingyue.
Then, the Spirit Replenishing Array trembled slightly, and streams of spiritual light continuously swirled above the Desolate Domain. Following that, the ground of the entire Desolate Domain began to shake and collapse.
The expressions on everyone's faces were filled with astonishment. What was happening?
A brilliant smile appeared on Xingyue's pale face. It seemed her initial thoughts were not wrong; this could indeed save the continent from its decline.
This was a method of sacrifice, using the sacrifice of some people and a region to obtain a large amount of spiritual energy and increase the spiritual energy concentration in other regions. Although it was an irreversible method that could not completely solve the problem, it was still somewhat effective.
Before everyone could fully react, many blood-red tentacles suddenly extended from the array, reaching directly towards the cultivators who stood there in a daze.
"Presumptuous!" someone roared and slashed at a tentacle with his sword.
The two collided with a "bang." The tentacle was incredibly sturdy. Not only did his sword fail to cause any damage to the tentacle, but the tentacle seized the opportunity and coiled around him, dragging him into the array.
With a mournful cry, the man completely turned into dust and vanished from the world.
"Immortal Lord Yue, have you gone mad?" Yu couldn't help but roar.
All cultivators, after reaching the Divine Realm, would gain their own titles. Xingyue found it troublesome to choose one, so she let them address her by the last character of her name. It was merely a moniker, and she didn't care much about it.
Xingyue smiled, and the blood at the corner of her lips made her appear utterly mad at this moment.
"Yes! But haven't all of us gone mad long ago? You want the spiritual energy in the world to recover to its original state, but with just these people, it's far from enough."
"Since you are all so dedicated, why not offer yourselves as sacrifices? I believe future generations will remember your merits."
"Madman, all of you are mad! Do you think you can escape like this?" the old ancestor of the Tianya Sect cursed furiously.
"I never intended to escape. This is where we so-called Divine Realm powerhouses will be buried. Old Ancestor, you don't need to worry. When all the Divine Realm powerhouses have died here, the outside world will surely maintain a relative balance, and our Tianya Sect will still be able to continue its lineage."
Xingyue continued to smile, but her actions did not stop as she manipulated the array to attack these people.
"You..." He was filled with rage. He had indeed prepared himself for death, but not to die in such an obscure manner in this place.
"The Ying Tian Beast has descended. The greatest disaster in the world now is the depletion of spiritual energy. With her existence, why would you resort to this!" the old man roared, filled with frustration.
"What? The Ying Tian Beast has descended!" Everyone present, except for the Tianya Sect's old ancestor and Yu, was unaware of this news. Upon hearing it, they were stunned.
With a slightly resentful gaze towards the old man, they thought, if they had known the Ying Tian Beast had descended, why would they have gone to all this trouble? This old fellow was also quite something, not revealing such a major event at all.
Xingyue remained silent, her actions becoming even more ruthless. It was precisely because she knew that she had made this decision today.
It was almost time; A Yuan should be returning. Before she returned, she had to ensure that all matters were settled.