In truth, the golden dragon illusion was growing fainter and fainter, and before long, it dissipated entirely.
But fortunately, they had already escaped to a safe location.
Even so, the Dragon Breath Clan did not dare to linger. They took out their floating warships and continued to press onward.
"Fortunately, the ones besieging us were only from our Dragon Breath Clan."
Long Mucheng looked back behind him, and even he felt a wave of relief.
Every member of the Dragon Breath Clan had been within the golden dragon illusion together, unified as one, which made the escape far more convenient.
If other members of the Chu Alliance had been present as well, this time would have been truly difficult to handle.
After the Dragon Breath Clan fled, the onlookers also hurriedly dispersed.
They feared that the fury of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion would drag them into the aftermath.
But regarding those onlookers, the people of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion did not make things difficult for them, and instead let them leave.
Because at this moment, every member of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion was immersed in ecstasy.
A crowd of Spirit World Masters, cheering and shouting, swarmed around the two Saint-level elders.
As for the two Saint-level elders themselves, the sacred white light that had enveloped them had already faded, and their complexions were even more drained than before they had acted.
It seemed to be a side effect of the sacred white light.
But there was not a trace of worry on their faces — only wild elation.
From a situation of certain death, they had turned peril into safety and repelled a powerful enemy.
This rollercoaster of emotions made them feel as though they had been reborn.
Most of the people present did not actually know the specific reason. They simply felt that their two Saint-level elders were incredibly powerful.
But the older generation had seen through the signs.
"My lords."
"That power you displayed earlier — could it be the legendary...?"
One of the elders could not help but press the question.
"Correct. It was the Sacred Formation power within our bodies that was awakened."
"Our Mansion Lord truly does still have his methods."
The white-haired Saint-level elder said.
And as soon as these words left his mouth, a brief silence fell over heaven and earth, followed by even more fervent cheers.
They all knew what this meant for their Seven Realms Holy Mansion.
The so-called Sacred Formation was a formation left behind by the ancestors of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion before they departed.
It had been the guarantee of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion's strength.
Precisely because of the Sacred Formation's existence, the most powerful members within the Mansion had Sacred Formation power implanted within their bodies.
However, not everyone could bear the Sacred Formation power.
Therefore, whether one could successfully have the Sacred Formation power implanted into one's body was one of the necessary conditions for becoming a Saint-level elder.
But within the Seven Realms Holy Mansion, it was not only the thirty-six Saint-level elders who carried Sacred Formation power within them.
The Lord of the Ling Clan and the leaders of the Holy Mansion's Shadow Division — they all carried Sacred Formation power within their bodies as well.
As long as the Sacred Formation was activated, regardless of where they were, the Sacred Formation power within their bodies would begin to operate.
It could be put to their use at any moment.
This was also the reason for their sudden and dramatic increase in combat strength.
But they knew that since the Sacred Formation was so powerful, the difficulty of activating it was equally immense.
In truth, for several generations of Mansion Lords before Jie Tianran, the Sacred Formation had already been impossible to activate.
By their generation, they possessed the Sacred Formation power but had never truly witnessed the Sacred Formation's might.
That was why the Sacred Formation had become nothing more than a legend.
But now, the activation of the Sacred Formation was an undeniable fact. And the only one within the Seven Realms Holy Mansion capable of achieving this was none other than their Mansion Lord, Jie Tianran.
This also proved that Jie Tianran had accomplished what several generations of Mansion Lords could not.
In truth, it was exactly as they had imagined.
Deep within the Seven Realms Holy Mansion, there stood a colossal formation shrouded in sacred white light that reached toward the heavens.
It was so vast it resembled a small world — not to mention human figures, even a heaven-reaching behemoth would appear as nothing more than a speck of dust before it.
And at this moment, the elders of the Seven Realms Holy Mansion stood in orderly ranks upon the distant void.
Gazing upon that radiant, white-lit, heaven-reaching Sacred Formation.
On their faces bloomed excitement and exhilaration the likes of which they had never experienced before.
Many among them already had tears welling in their eyes.
For that was the Sacred Formation.
Now, the Sacred Formation had been activated.