Jin Da-Shan knelt in front of the Lord of All Senses statue. In the eyes of others, it may have appeared to be a deformed creature that cannot be said exactly what it is.
However, with the appearance of a new eye—the third eye chakra located in the center of his forehead—his vision was transformed. The third eye bestowed upon him numerous new abilities, including the power to see through illusions. With this ability, he could finally perceive the true form of the Lord of All Senses.
Jin Da-Shan gazed at the statue. What he saw was no longer a deformed creature in his eyes but a deity with a humanoid shape that seemed to be a man, with pale white skin and countless arms and legs overlapping like an illusion.
Countless snakes protruded from the statue's back, but when Jin Da-Shan looked closely, they appeared to be part of the deity statue's body. Divine chakra emanated around the deity's head.
This appearance would terrify mortals, but if asked whether what they saw was The God or The Demon, they would unanimously answer that this was the God.
The Wu God statue gradually stopped sending its Chakra to empower the cultist, it was a sign of the ceremony ending.
At the moment when the last wisp of the Divine Chakra went through.
"All senses converge, all truths revealed—Glory to the Lord of All senses!" Jin Da-Shan declared.
"Glory to the Lord of All senses!" The follower echoed.
The ceremony ended, but no one left yet as they waited for the order from their leader the Axeman Prince.
Jin Da-Shan still kneeled as he adapted to his newfound power—the power of the third eye Chakra. allowed him to see and perceive the truth, and he could also use it to deceive reality.
Suddenly, one of his servants moves through the hundreds of cultists directly to him.
"Your Highness, the Emperor sent the order to proceed with the plan immediately," Jin Da-Shan's servant reported.
Jin Da-Shan rose from his knees and turned around to face hundreds of black-masked cultists, then ordered them to prepare—they would go to battle.
When most went to prepare for battle, only a few remained with him. They were his direct servants from the imperial court.
"What about the prisoners?" Jin Da-Shan asked.
"They have all converted, Your Highness. The Lord of All Senses now guides their path," the servant replied with an absurd answer, but from the unchanged atmosphere, it seemed this term was a normal thing for them.
"Very good. Prepare the sacrifices, and we will move our troops immediately," Jin Da-Shan said.
The servants bowed and moved to carry out the prince's orders. Soon, they brought dozens of people before Jin Da-Shan.
These people were former prisoners that the cultists had captured within the secret land. They mostly came from second-rate forces and had already been turned into cultists through the Heavenless Dao Cult's brainwashing methods.
They entirely lost their free will, as it was wholly consumed by the faith's whisper, becoming the living puppet.
If Hengsheng were here, he would be fuming with anger because among these people were also members of his Lan Clan.
Their expressions were pleased, as they had never been this happy before, as if they had found true purpose in their lives.
"Greetings, Lord Disciple," the prisoners bowed in unison to Jin Da-Shan.
Jin Da-Shan gazed at them with a hint of mockery hidden in his eyes.
"I want you all to help me complete the mission the gods have given me," Jin Da-Shan said, then he brought out three talismans from his space ring.
The talismans glowed with golden light and radiated a powerful aura of Dao—these were Immortal-Tier talismans.
These talismans specialized in disturbing and destroying the defense formations. Since they were Immortal-Tier talismans, of course, it was impossible for low-rank cultivators to activate them without consequences.
Jin Da-Shan handed one of the talismans to the former prisoner nearest him.
"You know what to do," Jin Da-Shan said, his tone cold as he commanded his servants.
The servants stepped in and instructed the prisoners.
The prisoners followed the servant's instructions. Then, ten of them gathered together and began to send all of their life force, Qi, and even soul energy into the Immortal talisman.
Their flesh and blood were consumed at a visible rate, and finally, the ten prisoners turned into dust as their very beings were completely devoured. The dust of former humans was blown away by the wind, leaving only the golden-glowing talisman floating in the air, fully activated.
The Immortal-Tier talisman transformed into an immortal golden sword hovering in the air before it shot toward the Golden Sword Sect's Metal Seal Station.
The Immortal golden sword's speed was beyond the speed of light. In less than a nano-second, it had already reached the concealment formation of the Metal Seal Station!
The immortal golden sword struck the barrier of the concealment formation and blew away more than half of it, revealing the inside of the formation.
Despite the power of an Immortal-level attack, surprisingly, there was no damage to the interior area of the formation. The concealment formation was also an Immortal-Tier formation, and it held some defensive properties, not just concealment.
"We are under attack!" a Golden Sword Sect disciple shouted as he noticed they were finally being attacked.
"Activate the defense formation now!!" Jian Zixuan shouted from the top of the golden pagoda.
The disciple responsible for this task didn't even wait for Jian Zixuan's command. The moment he noticed the attack, he had already activated the defense formation.
A massive, translucent golden bubble dome immediately covered the entire area of the Metal Seal Station.
"Gather everyone—prepare for battle!" Jian Zixuan commanded.
The Golden Sword sect disciples and their allies began to form the Battle Formation, to prepare for upcoming attacks.
Unknown to them among these disciples of the Golden Sword sect, some began to reveal a hint of madness within their eyes.
Returning to Jin Da-Shan's side...
Jin Da-Shan did not see the effect of the talismans himself, but he was confident in their power. Since they had worked every time before, there was no reason for them to fail now.
He handed another talisman to the former prisoners, instructing them to perform the same action as the previous group. They were now the next sacrifice, offering their lives to activate the Immortal talismans.
Another Immortal golden sword rose into the air and disappeared.
The sound and vibration of the attack reached even here, though he was a thousand li away. This was only a side effect of the natural flow shift—if the Immortal attack had not been concentrated in one point, he too would have been caught within its destruction range.
Then he handed the last Immortal talisman to the former prisoners, and soon, the final group met the same fate as their predecessors.
The last Immortal golden sword rose and disappeared.
"Tell Bao Long and Wei Bujia to attack immediately," Jin Da-Shan ordered.
"Understood, Your Highness." The servant obeyed and left to carry out the command.
"Your Highness, the troops are ready," another servant reported. Behind him stood an army of five hundred cultists, all of whom had a minimum strength at the middle stage of the Spiritual Foundation Realm after being blessed by the Wu God with Wu Qi power.
Jin Da-Shan turned his body to face them, exerting his royal authority over the entire atmosphere.
"The time of battle has come—march!" Jin Da-Shan commanded, then leaped into the air toward the Metal Seal.
The cultist army followed Jin Da-Shan, dashing in the same direction, their eyes now filled only with madness.
Meanwhile, Bao Long, who had just received the order from Jin Da-Shan, began to move.
In front of him were thousands of God Spawn. They had been hunting, but now that the order had come, the hunting season had ended here right now.
He activated the Wu Dao Seed within him, revealing the connection between himself and the God Spawn through the Wu God's Law. He then commanded them to move and follow his orders.
The crazed blood bath, twitching God Spawns suddenly turned their heads in the same direction and began to advance.
Bao Long watched the monsters move forward with awe filling his eyes.
"Brother Long? Will we proceed?" his junior brother asked.
Bao Long was not alone. Behind him stood a hundred disciples from Iron Edge Hall. When they had first entered the secret land, they had numbered 300, but now only a hundred remained. Since they had been at the frontline of this early operation, almost 200 had perished during the assaults on the first two seal stations.
Technically, their role ended here, but Hengsheng’s appearance had added another layer of reliability to their plan. To ensure the plan's success, Bao Long still needed to aid Jin Da-Shan in the Metal Seal attack.
"We move, but let's not rush." Bao Long said, his tone playful like he had a plan.