Due to Wang Sheng's firm insistence, Xi Lian did not personally lift the immobilization technique on the Daoist masters for safety's sake. Instead, she passed the method for undoing it to Qing Long and his companions.0

Soon after, eight more Golden Core Realm cultivators arrived. Including those who had already been released from the technique, they now had around seventeen or eighteen Golden Core Realm experts working into the night. Only then was a third of the immobilized righteous cultivators finally freed.0

Although Xi Lian's immobilization technique could technically be undone, it was still incredibly difficult to break. Even Golden Core Realm cultivators barely managed to do it. The group of Daoist elders worked themselves to the brink of exhaustion, dripping with sweat and lips turning pale from overexertion.0

Worried that the technique would hinder the future cultivation of the immobilized Daoist masters, they had no choice but to swallow alchemical pills continuously, alternate between meditation and drawing in primal qi, and shout encouragement to each other to keep going.0

Just before nightfall, though, the...0