Celestial Weapon: I Can't Bear to Disrupt Your Efforts

So the celestial sword couldn't be bothered dealing with them.

It continued calmly emanating its aura, waiting for more people to arrive.

Only when more came would it be better for it to fly in another direction.

Then through word of mouth, more people would know it had flown off elsewhere.

This way, there wouldn't be any idiots still rushing towards Qing Yuan Town.

On the other side, Dragon Ao Tian and the others were still desperately channeling their spiritual power into the compass.

"Why isn't it working yet? I'm almost out of spiritual power!"

"Same here, why can't we activate this formation compass?"

One elder after another voiced their concerns.

Dragon Ao Tian's expression was also looking unsightly at this point.

He had thought with more than a dozen of them pouring their full spiritual power in, the formation would activate soon enough.

But he had severely underestimated the amount of spiritual power required.

Fortunately, the celestial sword hadn't moved at all, so they could afford to waste some time.

"Keep it up, that celestial sword isn't going anywhere. Persevere and we'll succeed!" Dragon Ao Tian encouraged.

The other elders could only nod and continue channeling their spiritual power in.

Another stick of incense later, half the elders had already stopped.

They took out spirit stones to absorb more spiritual power.

They had completely depleted their reserves.

Not long after, only two or three elders were still channeling spiritual power into the compass.

Finally, only Dragon Ao Tian remained.

Fortunately, the first batch who had recovered were absorbing spiritual power again to take over channeling it in.

From atop the distant peak where it still hovered, the celestial sword watched the dozen-plus elders taking turns channeling spiritual power into that compass, feeling speechless.

"You all haven't even filled that trash with spiritual power yet?"

It even saw a few elders channeling until their faces turned red and they broke out in sweat from the exertion.

Seeing this, it was almost tempted to go over and lend a hand.

Time continued passing rapidly.

Dragon Ao Tian kept encouraging the other elders, "Persevere, the more spiritual power we channel, the stronger this formation will be. The longer we can confine this celestial weapon, the greater the chance one of us has for it to acknowledge us as master!"

Hearing his words, the other elders gritted their teeth and continued pouring in their full spiritual power.

They had bought into his promises!

Keep pushing!

Make the celestial weapon acknowledge a master and reach the pinnacle of life!

After another stick of incense burned, more and more people slowly appeared behind the dozen-plus elders.

But none of these people dared approach the celestial sword.

Some didn't even dare get close to those Great Traverser realm experts.

Because they realized those experts were clearly preoccupied with some matter.

And it looked like they were on the verge of collapse, their patience nearly gone.

If they went over there and provoked those powerful experts, they'd likely get blasted away.

Everyone stayed back at a distance, discussing that celestial sword on the mountain peak.

Seeing enough people had finally arrived, the sword was about to take action.

But just as it had that thought, it stopped itself.

It couldn't bear to disrupt the efforts of those dozen-plus elders.

"Alright, I'll give you all a bit more time. You've worked so hard, I should at least give you a chance at success."

If it flew off now, it could imagine those dozen elders would probably rage themselves to death.

After all, they had striven so long and were about to activate the formation, only for the celestial sword to leave - who could accept that?

After a while longer.

Those dozen-plus elders finally noticed the formation compass showing signs of activating!

They saw the formation compass beginning to tremble.

Then, it even radiated a burst of white light!

"It's working!"

Dragon Ao Tian's eyes shot wide open, ecstatic.

At that moment, the other elders' faces also revealed excited smiles.

A few even wanted to throw their heads back and let out a long roar.

"Quick! The celestial sword hasn't left yet, confine it!!"

After getting the compass working, the elders exclaimed excitedly.

They could hardly wait to see the celestial weapon confined.

Dragon Ao Tian nodded, a smug glint flashing in his eyes.

Only he could control this formation, so once the celestial weapon was confined, the chances of it acknowledging him as master would also be greater.

He began chanting the abstruse incantation.

Finally, a burst of brilliant light shone from his eyes as he threw everything he had towards the celestial sword's location.

The formation compass instantly tore through space to arrive in the sky above the sword.

It then hovered, spinning and trembling!

A humming sound echoed into the distance.

Lastly, a cylindrical pillar of light shot down from the sky, attempting to confine the celestial sword.

The sword had been waiting for this moment and didn't budge as the formation descended.

It felt that after those dozen-plus elders had worked so hard, it should at least give them a moment of joy for their labor.

After all, it was a celestial weapon with extremely upright values!

The light pillar shot down, quickly encircling the celestial sword.

Seeing this, Dragon Ao Tian clenched his fist tightly and shouted, "Success!"

Hearing this, the dozen-plus elders cheered loudly.

Excitement and elation filled their wrinkled faces.

From its distant vantage, the celestial sword smiled watching their happy expressions.

Ah, the joy after labor - it's just different, isn't it?

Look how brilliantly they're smiling.

The celestial sword felt it had done a good deed.

"Alright, time for me to take care of real business."

After smiling briefly, the sword wasted no more time.

It casually waved its hand towards the sky.

Just that one motion.

Crack.

A crisp sound rang out in the heavens.

The formation compass hovering there shattered with a boom.

The cone of light instantly dissipated.

At that moment, the elders who had been cheering euphorically, including the ecstatic Dragon Ao Tian, noticed this change.

The smiles still hanging on their faces instantly froze.

Seeing their expressions, the celestial sword felt apologetic.

It wasn't that it wanted to disrupt their joy - it simply had a mission.

It was truly sorry.

Thinking this, the sword waved its hand forward again.

A black rift appeared.

The next instant, it manifested right before Dragon Ao Tian and the others.

At the same time, an overwhelmingly dominating aura erupted from its body.

In that moment -

The entire world began to tremble!

Before Dragon Ao Tian and the others' eyes, it was like reality itself was collapsing!