Afterwards, the Darkstar race became much more peaceful. The reason why it was peaceful was because the cultivators who could be seen everywhere outside the city had become much rarer now. As for the cultivators from the outside world who went to Two World Mountain, they had all vanished.
There were only small groups of Divine King realm experts of the Darkstar race. They patrolled the territory of the Darkstar World and captured cultivators from the outside world.
The entire Hundred Saints City remained vigilant. The protective formations were always maintained at their most powerful state. The fifty-two organisations that remained in the city silently hoped that the Darkstar race's grand ceremony would end soon. They also carefully guarded the only teleportation formation in the city.
This was because this was their only hope of escaping. It was their final reliance.
At the same time, they inspected the teleportation formation extremely harshly. They would basically inspect it carefully every single day. They would even send people to conduct experiments to ensure that it could operate normally at crucial moments.
Although some of the heaven's prides among them were cowardly and had already decided to give up, the journey to the Dark Star Realm this time around was more of a test given to them by their clans. It concerned their future. Thus, none of them wished to become deserters before they could ascertain whether or not there would be any danger.
Even though a third of the organisations in the city had already left, that was because they had been threatened by the seventh hall. If they did not leave, only death would await them.
Retreating under these circumstances was not shameful, and the clans would not blame them either. However, if they retreated just because the atmosphere in the Darkstar race was tense, and they did so under the promise of the fifth hall's hall master's protection, it would be completely different.
As a result, the fifty-two organisations in the city continued to hold on.
Time passed silently. As the Darkstar clansmen waited eagerly and the cultivators in the outside world waited nervously and uneasily, the day of the grand ceremony that the Darkstar race had been preparing for all this time finally arrived.
The location of the grand ceremony was the royal capital of the Darkstar race. Currently, all the peak experts of the Darkstar race had gathered in the royal capital. Aside from all the Primordial realm experts of the Darkstar race, the city lords of the thirty-six main cities, as well as the hundred and eight kings and thirty-six lords of each city, had all gathered in the royal capital.
There was not a single cultivator from the outside world in the royal capital. All the people from the ruins of the Saints' World and the Spiritsages' World had been gathered in the thirty-six main cities.
The grand ceremony this time was something that could change the fate of the entire race. As a result, the Darkstar race placed the greatest importance on security during the ceremony. Not only did they send out the ten famed armies of the Darkstar race to guard the royal capital, but they also mobilised all the forces in the thirty-six main cities under the command of their vice-city lords to guard.
The people they were guarding against were all the cultivators from the outside world who had been confined in the thirty-six main cities.
Above the royal capital, the ten divine halls that originally hovered in the air had all changed positions. They seemed to form some kind of formation. The Darkstar Divine Hall that originally hovered above the ten divine halls had also descended. It was surrounded by the ten divine halls in a special formation, like the stars surrounding the moon.
The eleven divine halls hovered in the air. Every single one of them shone with dazzling light, radiating with powerful pulses of energy. They seemed like eleven bright suns at first glance.
Below the divine halls were the organisations from the thirty-six main cities. They were led by the city lords of each region, supported by the thirty-six lords and the hundred and eight kings. They all sat in the air, forming a great formation.
Among them, Darknight City had chosen a new city lord during this period of time. They had also appointed thirty-six lords and one hundred and eight kings.
Below the organisations of the thirty-six cities were countless people in the royal capital. At this moment, countless people knelt on the ground devoutly, waiting for the exciting moment.
"Open the altar!"
At this moment, above the royal capital, the Darkstar Great sat at the top of the Darkstar Divine Hall. He had a solemn expression as he spoke in a dignified voice.
His voice spread throughout the entire city, reaching the ears of every single person.
"Open the altar — draw the power of Windless City …"
"Open the altar — draw the power of Darknight City …"
"Open the altar — draw the power of Doye City …"
"Open the altar — draw the power of Darknight City …"
"Open the altar — draw the power of Blacklight City …"
.....
Almost as soon as the Darkstar Great finished speaking, the voices of the thirty-six city lords resounded through the sky. With their voices, the formation formed by the thirty-six lords and the hundred and eight kings was activated. In an instant, a mysterious connection seemed to have been established between them and the thirty-six main cities in the distance.
Suddenly, in the distant heavens and earth, thirty-six brilliant pillars of light rose into the sky, heading straight for the royal capital from thirty-six different directions.
This was the power of the thirty-six main cities. The thirty-six forces crossed a long distance and directly enveloped the respective city lords, the thirty-six lords and the hundred and eight kings. Then, under the control of the thirty-six city lords, the power of the thirty-six cities merged into one in an instant. Like a sharp sword, it bloomed with a bright light that illuminated the whole world and directly pierced into the void ten thousand meters above the royal capital.
From a distance, it looked like a huge white pillar of light rose from the ground and pierced into the sky. It was like a pillar that held up the sky, bright and spectacular.
The next moment, in the void space ten thousand meters high in the sky, the space fluctuated violently. The white energy pillar formed by the power of the thirty-six cities was like a key, opening a mysterious door hidden in the void.
Inside the mysterious door, an altar that seemed to be completely forged from white jade slowly drifted out.
The altar was not very large, only several thousand meters across. There were many stone tablets on it, and ancient diagrams and words were carved on them. They seemed to record the glorious and resplendent history of the Darkstar race, giving off a heavy presence of time.
At the very centre of the altar stood a human-shaped statue. It was abnormally large, surrounded by thousands of stone tablets. It was worshipped by countless creatures, like a sovereign of the world.
However, the human-shaped statue did not have a face, so it was impossible to make out its facial features. It was only possible to tell that it was a man from some of its physical characteristics.
He was an exceptionally tall and imposing man who exuded a domineering aura, as if he was the sole ruler of the world!
"Is this person the Grand Exalt of the Darkstar race?"
Jianchen's heart trembled as he sat at the very top of the fifth divine hall. This was because he could sense a profound presence from the featureless statue. In his eyes, the statue seemed to condense the ways of the Darkstar race. It was the highest point of all the ways of the Darkstar race.
The altar slowly drifted out of the void space. In the end, it hovered ten thousand meters above the royal capital. Once the space above settled down, Tian Shengxian's illusionary figure suddenly appeared. He did not directly fly up the altar. Instead, like a staircase to the heavens, he climbed up the altar one step at a time.
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