Reinforcements heading to support the main force, piloting flying magical instruments, rushed to the scene of the battle at lightning speed. At this point, the main force in the air and the black-robed figures remained deadlocked. Both sides were showing signs of fatigue, but neither was willing to give in. The aftermath of the battle's spiritual energy still resonated in the air, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

The arrival of reinforcements instantly transformed the situation on the field. They shouted slogans and joined the battle with high morale. These reinforcements came from various sects, each possessing unique skills and working in perfect harmony. Some unleashed unique spiritual spells, condensing brilliant chains of spiritual energy in the air, which entwined the black-robed men in an attempt to restrict their movement. Others harnessed powerful magical weapons, transforming into streams of light, attacking the black-robed men's formation from the sides, disrupting their combined attack.

The elders also used powerful skills. One elder made seals with his hands, muttered something, and then stomped his feet. A golden beam of light containing tremendous spiritual power shot up from under his feet and blasted towards the area where the black-robed men were most concentrated. Wherever it went, the black spiritual power was dispersed. The black-robed men were shaken to pieces by the powerful impact and their formation was in chaos.

With the help of reinforcements, the main force seized the opportunity to launch an even more fierce counterattack, and the previously stalemate began to tilt in favor of the Immortal Cultivation Realm. Seeing this, the black-robed men were shocked. They had not expected the Immortal Cultivation Realm to suddenly send reinforcements. For a moment, they were in a state of panic, and the rhythm of their attack became chaotic, gradually opening up gaps in their original defense line.

The black-robed men knew they would surely lose if they continued this way, so they decided to make a desperate move, concentrating their strength once again and attempting to break out from one side of the encirclement. This time, they spared no expense in using a vast amount of spiritual energy, unleashing an extremely strange escape technique. A thick layer of black smoke enveloped them, blurring their forms. Their speed suddenly increased, and they rushed in one direction.

The main force and reinforcements would not let them succeed so easily; they immediately surrounded and intercepted them. The disciples skilled in tracking closely locked onto the direction of the black-robed men's escape, tracking their movements through subtle fluctuations of spiritual energy. The disciples skilled in attacking continuously unleashed various spiritual attacks, bombarding the black-robed men's escape route in an attempt to block their progress. The elders also joined forces to cast a large spiritual blockade formation, hoping to trap the black-robed men within a certain area and prevent them from escaping.

However, the black-robed figure's escape technique was truly remarkable. Although screams occasionally emanated from the black smoke, indicating injuries among the black-robed figures, some still managed to break through the layers of obstruction with this uncanny technique and escape into the distance. The main force and reinforcements were not prepared to slack off, and they quickly split into smaller teams, pursuing the black-robed figures in their direction of flight. A fierce pursuit ensued.

In a cave in a mysterious place, many masters who are proficient in rune restrictions and spiritual power control gathered together, centering on the spiritual source stone bound by ancient restrictions, racking their brains to find a way to break it.

They first carefully studied the runic patterns on the Spirit Source Stone, comparing them to ancient runic texts treasured by various sects, analyzing and interpreting them word by word, trying to find the key. After in-depth discussion, several elders discovered that the restriction seemed to be related to a long-lost ancient spiritual energy sealing technique, with the rune arrangement and spiritual energy flow method being extremely unique and complex.

Therefore, the experts decided to try to break the restriction by reversing the ancient spiritual sealing technique. Some experts used their spiritual power to carefully touch the forbidden runes, feeling the flow of spiritual power within them, and then guided their own spiritual power to disrupt and break the original spiritual power cycle in reverse order. Others took some materials with special spiritual properties and placed them around the spiritual source stone in a specific direction, hoping to use the spiritual resonance of these materials to weaken the power of the restriction.

With everyone's concerted efforts, after several hours of arduous attempts, the restriction on the Spirit Source Stone finally showed signs of loosening. The previously solid and immovable restriction runes began to flicker, and their light became much dimmer, as if they were about to be unable to withstand the power of the crowd to break it.

Just when everyone thought they were about to successfully break the Spirit Source Stone's restriction, a mysterious interfering force suddenly appeared in the cave. This force, coming from nowhere, caused the previously stable spiritual energy fluctuations in the cave to become chaotic again, instantly shattering the favorable atmosphere everyone had worked so hard to create to break the restriction.

That mysterious force transformed into invisible spiritual tentacles, reaching out towards the experts working to break the restriction. Once touched, the experts felt as if their spiritual energy had been instantly frozen, its flow becoming sluggish and their movements becoming slow. Simultaneously, this force continuously impacted the spiritual resonance materials already arranged around the Spirit Source Stone, altering their spiritual properties. The arrangement, originally intended to weaken the restriction, now threatened to trigger a spiritual backlash.

"Everyone be careful, what kind of strange power is this? Stop trying to break the restriction first, and resist this interference together!" An elder shouted loudly. Everyone hurriedly stopped what they were doing and used their defensive skills to protect themselves. At the same time, they tried to find the source of this mysterious power so that they could find a way to deal with it. However, the spiritual power in the cave was fluctuating chaotically, and it was difficult to determine its source for a while. The situation became very critical.

In the sect, Su Yao had recovered a lot after a period of recuperation. Her complexion gradually became rosy, and her spiritual power was also steadily recovering. Although she had not yet fully reached her pre-injury state, she was already strong enough to fight.

Su Yao was extremely anxious when she learned that all parties outside had encountered difficulties and crises to varying degrees. She could no longer sit still and took the initiative to ask the head elder to participate in the subsequent actions.

"Elder, I have almost recovered. The black-robed men are so rampant, how can I rest here and recuperate? I request to join the battle, even if it is just a small contribution, it is better than sitting here anxiously." Su Yao said earnestly, with firm determination in her eyes.

The head elder looked at Su Yao, feeling both relieved and a little worried. However, considering that the current situation was indeed serious, one more person would mean more strength, so he finally nodded in agreement. However, he told her to be careful and not to be reckless, and to put her own safety first. Su Yao nodded gratefully and immediately prepared the necessary magic weapons and elixirs, ready to set off to where she was needed to contribute her strength to protecting the world of immortal cultivation.

In view of the various new situations that emerged on the battlefield, the leaders and elders of various sects quickly communicated the information through sound transmission notes and seal scripts, and gathered together again to discuss countermeasures and made further adjustments to the original plan.

The team pursuing the black-robed individuals was instructed to maintain close contact and report any suspicious activity they might find. They were to avoid rashly advancing further, lest they fall into a trap. Furthermore, disciples skilled in concealment and reconnaissance were to be deployed in advance to monitor the direction the black-robed individuals might flee, striving to monitor their every move and fully prepare for subsequent encirclement and suppression operations.

In response to the mysterious interference within the cave at the Mysterious Land, several elders with deep knowledge of mystical spiritual energy were summoned to provide support, hoping they could identify the source of this mysterious power, resolve the crisis, and continue the work of cracking the Spirit Source Stone's restrictions. Furthermore, several additional teams were dispatched to strengthen patrols around the Mysterious Land to prevent further incidents and ensure the safety of the Spirit Source Stone and the experts working on the cracking of the cave.

As for Su Yao's active participation in the operation, the various sects reached a consensus and asked her to join a patrol team that was closer to the sect and relatively safer, so that she could first familiarize herself with the combat status and also play a certain deterrent role. After her body fully recovered, more important tasks would be arranged according to the actual situation.

The team chasing the black-robed man split into several smaller groups, each pursuing him in different directions. However, the black-robed man's strange escape techniques made his tracks increasingly difficult to track. Sometimes he would retreat into the mountains and forests, exploiting the complex terrain to hide his presence; sometimes he would use natural spiritual barriers to conceal his presence, leaving the pursuing disciples repeatedly empty-handed.

After chasing for a while, some teams found that the spiritual traces left by the black-robed man suddenly stopped, as if he had disappeared out of thin air. No matter how they used tracking techniques to search, they could not find any clues. They could only expand the search range in the nearby area, but still found nothing. They were anxious but helpless.

Some teams encountered some small spiritual traps left by the black-robed men during the pursuit. Although it did not cause too many casualties, it also wasted a lot of time, making the distance between them and the black-robed men farther and farther. It became increasingly difficult to lock on to their tracks again. The entire pursuit operation came to a stalemate, and everyone was worried about not being able to find the whereabouts of the black-robed men.

In the cave of the mysterious place, the mysterious interfering force became more and more violent. It kept changing its attack form, sometimes turning into a spiritual storm, sweeping towards everyone; sometimes condensing into spiritual spikes, stabbing towards everyone, making the masters exhausted to deal with it and could only defend passively.

Fortunately, several elders with deep knowledge of mysterious spiritual energy arrived just in time. Upon arriving at the cave, they began carefully observing the characteristics and fluctuations of this mysterious power. After some investigation, the elders discovered that this power seemed to contain a unique energy that was not common in the world of immortal cultivation. This energy was inherently connected to the mysterious aura of the mysterious place itself.

Therefore, the elders decided to use a special spiritual purification technique to try to separate the special energy within this mysterious force and weaken its overall power. Under the elders' command, everyone formed a circle and pooled their own spiritual energy with the elders' spiritual energy, forming a massive spiritual purification array, which they slowly pressed towards the mysterious force. Under the spiritual purification array's effect, the mysterious force's attack indeed began to weaken, and the chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations in the cave gradually calmed down. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to continue to break the restrictions of the spiritual source stone.

The patrol team that Su Yao joined was responsible for patrolling an area near the sect, protecting the safety of the area, and keeping an eye out for any traces of black-robed men or other suspicious forces.

During their patrol, they discovered that some of the low-level demonic beasts in the area seemed unusually restless. Normally docile, they were now scurrying about, their eyes etched with fear, as if sensing a profound threat. Furthermore, the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations had also undergone subtle changes. While not as chaotic as those in the mysterious land, they nonetheless exuded an indescribable, strange aura.

"Does anyone feel something's wrong? These monsters are reacting very strangely. Could it be related to the black-robed man or the mysterious place?" Su Yao frowned, and the other patrol members nodded in agreement. So, the team decided to follow the direction the monsters fled to see if they could find any clues. However, they didn't know that this investigation would uncover a new mystery, making the situation even more complicated.

The patrol team followed the direction of the monster's escape and arrived at a remote valley. A light mist filled the valley, through which strange lights and shadows could be vaguely seen. The fluctuations of spiritual energy here became increasingly strong and chaotic, as if hiding some profound secret.

Just as everyone was about to enter the valley to investigate, a low rumbling sound suddenly erupted from within, as if some enormous creature were stirring within. Immediately afterwards, a powerful spiritual force surged towards them, making it difficult for everyone to breathe. Faced with this sudden situation, the patrol team was caught in a dilemma: should they continue their investigation or return to report? Everyone was undecided. The situation in the entire cultivation world became even more tense and complex due to this new mystery, as if a greater storm was about to strike. Everyone waited nervously, preparing to face the unknown challenge.

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