"Quickly suppress your cultivation!"
Baili Xukong was the first to react, using the power of the formation to broadcast his voice across the entire Immortal Star Domain.
And so, all Heavenly Deity realm cultivators began suppressing their cultivation.
Sure enough, as their cultivation dropped below the suppression's threshold, the excruciating pain dissipated.
But Baili Xukong and the other experts were far from relieved.
Because the suppression's limit on their cultivation continued to expand.
If they didn't want to be tormented by that power, they had to keep suppressing further.
And that would mean exactly what Chu Feng had said — the elite experts of the Prison Sect and the Seven Realms Holy Temple, all being suppressed by a mere junior like Chu Feng!
"Jie Tianran, how did this happen?" Cang Li asked in a tight voice.
The formation space where he, Jie Tianran, and the others stood was outside the Immortal Star Domain, but they could still feel the suppression within.
The crux of the matter was that Chu Feng had truly used the Prison Sect's Sacred Artifact to pull this off — and that was something they could not tolerate.
"That Chu Feng is the one causing trouble — why are you asking me?" Jie Tianran shot Cang Li a cold glare. "Did I tell him to do this?"
Cang Li was rendered speechless.
On the surface, it was indeed Chu Feng stirring up chaos, and this couldn't really be blamed on Jie Tianran.
Still, he didn't trust Jie Tianran — he couldn't shake the feeling that a mere junior shouldn't have been capable of something like this. His suspicion was that Jie Tianran had a hand in it.
"What's his objective?" Cang Li pressed. "He risked his life to come here just to suppress our cultivation? What does he gain from that?"
"He's far too weak to be our match. By using the Sacred Artifact to suppress our cultivation, he thinks he can do as he pleases."
"If you're asking about his purpose — he already had a grudge against your Prison Sect, so naturally he's here for revenge."
Jie Tianran's words dumped every bit of the blame onto the Prison Sect.
"Even if his goal isn't to settle scores with your Prison Sect, but something else — as long as he suppresses everyone's cultivation below his own within the Immortal Star Domain, he can achieve whatever he wants."
Cang Li's expression darkened. "Then do you have a countermeasure? We can't just let this Chu Feng run roughshod over everyone. This isn't just about my Prison Sect anymore — it concerns the reputation of your Seven Realms Holy Temple as well."
They truly were powerless now, and their only option was to have Jie Tianran act. If Jie Tianran could stop Chu Feng, it would also free him from the accusation of colluding with Chu Feng.
"Don't panic. Leave it to me," Jie Tianran said calmly.
With that, he issued orders for more Seven Realms Holy Temple Heavenly Dragon Spirit World Masters to enter the Immortal Star Domain. They surrounded the Sacred Artifact and began setting up a new formation.
At the same time, Jie Tianran himself constructed a separate formation.
His formation was small in scale but extraordinarily intricate. It was integrated with the formation the other Spirit World Masters had built around the Sacred Artifact — yet Jie Tianran's was the core component.
Because of that, his formation was far more difficult to execute. The other Spirit World Masters had already completed theirs, but the one Jie Tianran was personally constructing still needed more time.
During this interval, the suppression emanating from the Sacred Artifact had already pushed everyone's cultivation within the Immortal Star Domain down to first-level Heavenly Deity and first-level Heavenly Dragon.
"Jie Tianran, do something!" Seeing that if this continued, his cultivation would be driven down to the True Deity realm, Baili Xukong — who was outside the Sacred Artifact's sphere — had long lost his earlier composure and was shouting openly for Jie Tianran's help.
"Don't worry. With me here, he won't be able to stir up any real storm."
As he spoke, Jie Tianran produced a purple talisman.
Its aura was even more formidable than the talismans he had used before.
The purple talisman merged into the formation that had just been completed.
The formation's aura transformed in an instant!
So that formation had been built specifically for this talisman.
"Formation, activate!"
With a sharp cry from Jie Tianran, a pillar of purple light descended from the heavens above the Sacred Artifact, merging with the formation the Seven Realms Holy Temple Spirit World Masters had built around it.
In that moment, Chu Feng's heart jolted.
He could feel that the purple formation was a counter-suppression array aimed directly at his own.
Originally, Chu Feng could have driven everyone's cultivation all the way down to the True Deity realm. But once that purple formation merged with the Sacred Artifact, he knew he could no longer do so.
The power behind that purple formation was immense!
"Chu Feng, why has your suppression stopped?" Jie Tianran's voice descended from the sky. "Could it be that you've exhausted every trick in your bag, and this is as far as you go?"
"Jie Tianran — at least you're the Master of the Seven Realms Holy Temple."