When a large number of cultivators were attracted by the mysterious power and jumped into the 'starry sky' scene, the green ball floating above Talisman Lord's head began to change color. It first turned dark green, then black.
The green ball was originally filled with vitality, but after it turned black, an aura of death spread from it.
Talisman Lord, who had his eyes closed, smiled faintly.
"What is this place?!"
The first cultivator to enter the starry sky scene quickly woke up after a short moment of obsession and let out a scream.
Around him, there were sparse dots that emitted a faint red light. They looked like countless dust particles.
If one looked at them with a magnifying glass, they would discover that these red dots were actually red balls covered with countless red patterns.
This person's scream caused the surrounding red dots to tremble.
Stimulated by the sound waves, these small red particles suddenly underwent a change. From the surface of the particles, densely packed filaments that were difficult to see with the naked eye extended out.
At the same time, the red light emitted by the red dots suddenly intensified by many times.
This cultivator was just about to move when suddenly, his entire body went numb. He couldn't move even if he wanted to.
It turned out that the thin threads that extended from the red dots had already drilled into his body.
These red threads were extremely strange. Not only did they absorb the energy in his body, but they even invaded his energy world.
After the red dots began to absorb energy through the red threads, they began to slowly expand and brighten.
This person couldn't even blink his eyelids. His face maintained a look of horror.
The thin threads absorbed all kinds of energy. After this person's energy was sucked dry and the energy world in his body was destroyed, his body was next.
His body quickly dried up, and soon, he was a dried corpse.
At this time, the hundreds of red balls surrounding this dried corpse had already become the size of a fist.
They didn't even let the dried corpse go. After retrieving the thin threads, they quickly stuck to the dried corpse …
In less than ten minutes, there was nothing left of such a cultivator in the Illusion Realm.
This wasn't the only cultivator who encountered such a situation. Other cultivators also encountered the same situation.
It was just that cultivators in higher realms lasted longer.
Of course, some cultivators were more cautious. When they woke up, they didn't act rashly and didn't 'activate' the red dots for the time being. Some reacted faster and immediately used the energy in their bodies to block the thin threads that extended from the red dots.
As long as these red threads didn't enter the cultivator's body, the absorption speed was slower.
The cultivators standing at the edge of the crack could see that the starry sky below had suddenly brightened by many times. The 'ley line map' projected in the sky had become clearer.
The picture was obviously fake, and it was meant to attract more cultivators.
This strange scene in the sky could be seen clearly even tens of thousands of kilometers away. More cultivators were rushing over.
Not only that, there were also many strange beasts running over in groups, causing the ground to tremble with every step they took. It was even louder than ten thousand galloping horses.
The 'ley line map' in the sky could attract mutated beasts!
When Black Talisman Lord came out, he immediately sent the situation here to Xi Chen Youyou using the long-distance teleportation formation.
Black Talisman Lord, who had almost jumped down, felt a lingering fear. When the three temples weren't paying attention, he activated the rune treasure in his hand and sent the situation here to Xi Chen Youyou again.
At this time, Xi Chen Youyou and the others were already halfway there.
…
"Rumble …"
The ground shook. The beasts had finally arrived.
The leading exotic beast stopped at the edge of the rift, but the exotic beasts behind it followed one after another. Even if the exotic beast in front wasn't bewitched by the starry sky below, it was still pushed down by the exotic beasts behind it, falling headfirst into the starry sky.
In addition to the mutated beasts on the ground, there were also beasts flying in the sky. They were so dark that they covered the entire sky.
These flying mutated beasts circled above the crack a few times before falling down …
Around the crack, the human cultivators who weren't confused by the starry sky had already flown into the air before the beasts arrived. They stayed away from the crack and floated in the air not far away.
This kind of scene was really too shocking.
"We have to stop them. Otherwise, we'll lose the balance and it'll be disadvantageous to our temples."
A hundred meters in the air, an old man said with a frown when he saw the countless exotic beasts pouring into the crack like a tidal wave.
Ku Man nodded and said solemnly, "If we let this continue, the number of mutated beasts will decrease greatly. It'll be difficult to obtain Life Crystals in the future."
Seeing the mutated beasts of Destiny State or even higher levels rushing into the crack and disappearing into the starry sky, the cultivators' hearts were bleeding. Those mutated beasts were high-level Life Crystals to them!
They were gone just like that.
Although they wanted to stop it, they couldn't do anything at the moment. They could only watch.
At this time, a white-robed Empyrean Temple Warden flew to the edge of the crack and threw a punch at the starry sky below.
The powerful force of the punch cut through the air and produced an ear-piercing sound as it rushed toward the starry sky.
However, when the force of the punch hit the starry sky, the starry sky that came into contact with the force of the punch suddenly flashed and returned to normal.
Such a simple attack obviously wouldn't have any effect.
A blue-robed Empyrean Temple Warden took out a hexagonal rune weapon and tapped it a few times. Five different colored rune energies rushed out of the rune weapon and condensed into a five-colored ball of light in the air.
The ball of light suddenly exploded and countless sharp rays of light fell like raindrops.
Each of these scattered rays of light was stronger than the force of the Empyrean Temple Warden's punch. However, when they landed in the starry sky, there was no reaction at all.
It seemed that it wasn't easy to destroy the starry sky like this.
Just as the cultivators were frowning, a series of buzzing sounds suddenly rang out in the distance. Then, the flying beasts that were circling in the sky scattered in all directions.
The sound came from a large number of large spaceships.
It turned out that the Automatons had arrived.
After the spaceships drove away the mutated beasts in the sky, they stopped above the crack and dropped silver-white metal pillars that were one meter in diameter.
The dense metal pillars landed in the middle of the mutated beasts and were drowned by the mutated beasts like sandbags thrown into a flood.
At first glance, the metal pillars seemed to have no effect on the mutated beasts. However, upon closer inspection, the speed at which the mutated beasts were rushing toward the crack was gradually decreasing.