The killing intent needed time to descend. Although it allowed Chu Feng and the others to recover, it also gave ample time to those who had rushed over in response to the changes on the stone stele.
While Chu Feng and Little Fishy were still undergoing their trial, more and more groups arrived at the Primordial Killing Sea in succession.
These were groups that had set out the moment the Primordial Killing Sea changed, so they arrived relatively quickly. It was only upon reaching the site that they learned the names of Chu Feng and Fairy Sea Yuer had actually appeared on the stone stele.
Originally, many had simply wanted to bring their juniors along for the excitement. Whether or not they would even let the juniors enter for the trial was something they had planned to decide after arriving.
To their surprise, by the time they got there, Chu Feng and Fairy Sea Yuer's names were already etched onto the stele.
As for Chu Feng, that went without saying — in the current cultivation world, there was hardly anyone who didn't know about him. If anyone alive could carve their name onto the stone stele of the Primordial Killing Sea, most people felt it could only be Chu Feng.
Fairy Sea Yuer, on the other hand, was the unexpected one.
After all, the annihilation of the Fairy Sea Fish Tribe was no longer a secret.
But how could a princess of a supposedly exterminated clan suddenly appear here?
Had the Fairy Sea Fish Tribe truly been wiped out, with Fairy Sea Yuer barely escaping with her life?
Or was there more to the story behind the Fairy Sea Fish Tribe's fate?
The more people thought about it, the more they craved an answer, marveling that coming to the Primordial Killing Sea had been the right call.
"Formation — activate!!!"
An aged yet powerful voice boomed across the sky.
At the entrance of the Primordial Killing Sea, nine bolts of lightning erupted simultaneously from nine different directions, piercing straight into the heavens in an instant.
Each bolt was tens of thousands of meters thick, and each was a different color, like colossal thunder trees whose trunks shot straight upward. When they reached a certain height, they branched out, the spreading lightning weaving together in the void to converge into the Nine-colored Divine Thunder.
In the blink of an eye, the Nine-colored Divine Thunder blotted out sky and earth. While it didn't seal the entire Primordial Killing Sea, it completely sealed off the entrance.
Looking closer, at the origin point of each bolt stood a grand formation, and within each formation were gathered tens of thousands of Ouyang Heavenly Clan members.
All of their cultivation was unleashed.
The outermost ring consisted of peak True God realm experts.
The rest were at least at the True God realm, though their exact levels varied, and in the very center stood an elder at the Heavenly God realm.
Regardless of their cultivation level, every one of them channeled lightning from their bodies, which merged into a bead perched at the apex of the formation.
It was that bead that shot the heaven-piercing bolts.
"Heavens above — are all nine of those elders Heavenly Gods? The Ouyang Heavenly Clan has that many Heavenly Gods?"
The crowd's first reaction was fear and panic.
Nine Heavenly Gods appearing within a single faction — that was practically the power to unify the entire cultivation world.
But soon, people began speculating about the Ouyang Heavenly Clan's intentions.
"They're using their bloodline power to drive it."
"What are they trying to do? Are they trying to prevent Chu Feng from escaping?"
Those who didn't know the full story assumed the Ouyang Heavenly Clan was targeting Chu Feng.
"That's not right. That formation has some defensive capability toward the interior, but it's weak — it's primarily oriented outward."
Some sharper minds quickly picked up on the discrepancy.
But outward — who were they defending against?
There was no reason for it. Even if a powerful figure showed up, they couldn't enter the Primordial Killing Sea — only juniors were allowed in.
And while the Ouyang Heavenly Clan had sealed the entrance, they had also declared that any junior with sufficient strength could enter, on the condition that they first defeat one of the Ouyang Heavenly Clan's own.