Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 859: Devouring

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Reverend Whitestone's surge of Immortal energy had also disappeared, and not only that, he had felt his energy reserve being pulled on. In shock, he grew even more suspicious of this formation.

But in the middle of his confusion, the mountain wall began to rumble, and then the passage opened.

After a moment of silence, everyone cheered, "All hail the reverend!"

Truth Embracer wiped the sweat from his forehead, as the effort to break the formation had been very taxing. Although he still found it strange, given that there should have been no effect from their actions just now, since the formation had opened, he decided to not make more trouble for himself and keep quiet.

The group began to enter the passage.

The passage soon opened up.

Before them was a pond, flanked by mountains on either side. Only by traversing the winding corridor installed over the pond could they get to the other side. While they were all cultivators, they also understood that it was best not to casually fly about in the court. Since there was a bridge over this pond, taking it across was the best option so that they didn't trigger any traps.

Sure enough, Reverend Whitestone said, "Everyone, be careful. Don't fly over the Ice Pond, or else you'll trigger a formation. If you fall into the pond, you'll be frozen into a block of ice for all of time."

There were numerous statues in the pond, of both humans and fiends, all of them extremely life-like.

After listening to Whitestone's explanation, everyone realized that these statues were those who had come before them and been knocked into the pond. Fear was instilled into their minds, and they all stared silently at Reverend Whitestone, afraid to advance.

Reverend Whitestone knew what they were thinking and chuckled. "Ah well, this old man will go first, then."

He stepped onto the winding corridor.

Everyone felt ashamed after seeing him being so "magnanimous", so they followed Reverend Whitestone onto the corridor.

Not long after they

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