Chapter 878 Ji Fa's Ruthlessness
Seeing the great demon explode like fireworks, Grand Tutor Wen's expression changed drastically. As a cultivator, Grand Tutor Wen knew very well that every cultivator had the mentality of "better to sacrifice a friend than oneself," which meant that a being would never self-destruct unless driven to the brink of death!
Regardless of their strength, the fact that those great demons survived the Lich Wars despite their sins is enough to prove that they were not selfless beings. After all, beings burdened with karma are more likely to perish during calamities!
Based on this, it is not difficult to deduce that the great demon who self-destructed was definitely not doing so voluntarily. The thought that Xiqi actually had a method to control the mind of a great demon made Grand Tutor Wen's face extremely ugly!
It should be understood that the vast majority of living beings cultivate for the sake of freedom and ease. Although Wen Zhong serves as an official in the Yin Shang Dynasty and is loyal to it, this does not mean that he wants someone to control his mind and decide his life and death based on the preferences of others!
Besides being extremely wary of Xiqi's methods of controlling the great demons, Wen Zhong also gave Ji Fa, the current ruler of Xiqi, a thorough dressing-down!
Although 300 kilometers is indeed a long distance from the perspective of mortals, it is really nothing to cultivators. After all, even a newly ascended immortal can escape more than that distance in an instant!
For immortals and gods, three hundred kilometers is really not a big deal. And the area affected by the self-destruction of immortals and gods is naturally not just that small. Just the distance between the place where that great demon self-destructed and the Yin Shang camp can be said to be that the Yin Shang camp was at the center of the explosion.
This means that if Wen Zhong hadn't activated the defensive array in time, once the power of the explosion spread, any being below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level would have been almost certainly killed unless protected by a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.
Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would be severely injured by the explosion. Of course, this excludes Great Luo Golden Immortals who possess defensive spiritual treasures of at least the middle grade of innate spiritual treasure. Quasi-Saints would fare relatively better; even without innate spiritual treasures, it wouldn't be a big deal, but they would still be covered in dust and dirt from the explosion!
Getting back to the main point, just when Wen Zhong thought everything had settled down, another explosion came from Xiqi. The defensive array on Xiqi's side was fine, but the defensive array protecting the Yin Shang army was shaken by the explosion and was on the verge of collapse!
Fortunately, Kong Xuan was aware of the consequences of the defensive formation being broken. Therefore, when he noticed that his own defensive formation was somewhat unstable, he took over the formation and began to use his own magic power to maintain its stability.
Otherwise, the defensive formation would likely have been destroyed by the shockwave from the simultaneous self-destruction of the six great demons!
After realizing that even the self-destruction of the great demons could not create any flaws in the trapping formation, Ji Fa decided to take a desperate gamble and ordered the great demons trapped outside to go to the Yin Shang camp and self-destruct!
Although the great demons didn't really want to self-destruct, they had now become Ji Fa's puppets, and even if Ji Fa ordered them to die, they couldn't object!
In the end, no matter how unwilling the great demons were, they had no choice but to rush towards the Yin Shang camp. As streaks of blood-red fireworks rose simultaneously, a chain reaction was created, which caused the power of the self-destruction to accumulate and reach the level of a sub-saint!
If it weren't for the quasi-saint level powerhouses on the Yin Shang side sensing the danger and spontaneously joining the ranks of those maintaining the great formation, the defensive formation wouldn't have lasted until the aftershocks of the self-destruction subsided!
After the defensive formation was broken, the immortals and gods of the Yin Shang side all looked extremely ugly. Especially after learning from Wen Zhong that Ji Fa might possess a magical treasure that could control people's minds and turn living beings into puppets, their disgust for Ji Fa reached its peak!
Wen Zhong knew very well that although he was a god and possessed unimaginable power, he was powerless in certain matters!
