Upon hearing this angry shout, everyone couldn't help but tremble in their hearts; it was over.

They naturally knew that these people must be the strongmen of the three great families.

Only the three great families possessed such a number of Meridian Passage Realm cultivators.

This group had more than a dozen people, all of whom had the cultivation of Meridian Passage Realm. The middle-aged leader exuded the aura of the Fifth Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm.

It's important to note that in the entire Black Tortoise City, only the three great families had individuals at the Middle Stage of the Meridian Passage Realm.

"It's Zhou Family's Third Elder, Zhou He."

"Although the Zhou Family's strength isn't as good as the Xie Family and Liu Family, they are far from being compared to an ordinary family's power. We're truly in trouble this time."

"What's there to fear? We have so many people, let's just fight them."

"That's right, no matter how strong they are, they are only a dozen, while we have tens of thousands. We can definitely charge our way out."

"Everyone, charge out together."

...

Everyone exchanged glances, and then each figure once again flickered and dashed towards the city outskirts.

"Ah..."

However, with the sound of tragic cries echoing, those who were quicker were instantly slain before they could exit the square.

Even those at the First Layer, Second Layer, or even Third Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm could not escape the fate of death.

As for those in the Innate Realm, they fell one after another into pools of blood.

In just a matter of seconds, nearly a thousand people were killed, staining the ground with blood.

Looking at the corpses scattered before them, everyone couldn't help but tremble with fear and retreat in terror.

"It's terrifying; is this the strength of the three great families?"

Everyone looked pale-faced at those dozen Zhou Family members. They originally thought that despite having more people on their side, they could leverage their numbers to break through even if they couldn't match the opposition.

Little did they expect, in the face of the powerful Zhou Family members, numbers meant nothing at all.

Just Zhou Family's Third Elder, Zhou He, at the Middle Stage of the Meridian Passage Realm, had slaughtered hundreds with incredible speed, including a dozen at the Early Stage of the Meridian Passage Realm.

At this moment, the survivors couldn't help but count their blessings that if they had been any faster, they would have ended up like those people, dying tragically on the spot.

"The Meridian Passage Realm is indeed far beyond the Innate Realm in comparison," Xueyao whispered, her eyes filled with grave thoughts.

Although she hadn't joined the charge, she could sense the might of those Zhou Family powerhouses. Even with her current strength, she feared she couldn't withstand any random blow from them.

Then, Xueyao's gaze turned to Wang Ruoxie. At this moment, she was even more amazed by how Wang Ruoxie had previously frightened Liu Chen away with just a single sword strike.

The cultivation of the Ninth Layer of the Innate Realm, yet able to terrify a genius powerhouse at the First Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm into fleeing like a lost dog, probably only Wang Ruoxie could achieve this in history.

"Generally speaking, the strength of the Meridian Passage Realm is indeed far beyond that of the Innate Realm. Even someone at the First Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm can easily kill any one of the Innate Realm, no matter how many in numbers there are." Wang Ruoxie nodded slightly and spoke.

After breaking through to the Meridian Passage Realm, his strength had increased by countless times compared to before. Now, he could easily kill a hundred of his former self.

As for the reasons, besides the fact that the True Essence inside the Meridian Passage Realm is thicker and purer than the Innate Realm, and the physical body and Soul Power are stronger, it's also because the Meridian Passage Realm can start connecting the internal meridians.

For Wang Ruoxie to break through to the First Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm, it indicated he had connected his first chakra internally.

Typically, everyone has nine chakras inside them. Breaking through the first chakra allows one to ascend to the First Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm, the second chakra to the Second Layer, and so on.

Each chakra contains twelve meridians, which must all be cleared to fully connect a chakra.

Once a chakra is fully connected, the twelve meridians form a Minor Cycle where the True Essence circulates continuously, inherently increasing its power.

Upon ascending to the Ninth Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm, all nine chakras complete, forming a Grand Cycle with a hundred and eight meridians, allowing the True Essence to circulate endlessly inside.

At that point, one can attempt to refine the Essence Pill and aim for the Essence Pill Realm.

However, the situation inside Wang Ruoxie's body differed from typical Meridian Passage Realms due to the mutation from the Blood God Essence Blood, seemingly causing some unique changes in his body.

One change was that his body remarkably had thirty-six chakras, twenty-seven more than usual people, meaning that if he wanted to continue advancing in cultivation and breakthrough realms, he would have to connect four times the chakras of a typical Meridian Passage Realm.

Thus, his upcoming cultivation challenges would be much greater than those of a typical Meridian Passage Realm, requiring significantly more time and cultivation resources.

Of course, this also meant his strength far surpassed that of a typical Meridian Passage Realm.

Most importantly, he had just cultivated an extremely special Secret Technique after his breakthrough to the Meridian Passage Realm.

If confronted by overpowering enemies, he could use this special Secret Technique to unleash tenfold to even a hundredfold combat power for a short time.

Given his current strength, even against Zhou He at the Fifth Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm, he had confidence in facing him. By employing the Secret Technique, he could entirely defeat him. Hence, even though he, like everyone else, was surrounded by a dozen Zhou Family powerhouses, he felt no fear at all.

"This Infinite Jade Disc is the treasured possession of our Black Tortoise City, yet now it's suddenly damaged. The culprit must be among you," at this point, Zhou He swept his cold gaze over the crowd and spoke slowly, "Now, I give you two choices; either the culprit who damaged the Infinite Jade Disc steps forward voluntarily, or I will kill all of you."

As Zhou He's words fell, everyone's faces changed drastically. Despite their numbers in the tens of thousands, the vast majority were only at the Innate Realm.

Moreover, even among the Meridian Passage Realm, almost all were only at the First Layer or Second Layer, with only three at the Third Layer.

As for those with Middle Stage of the Meridian Passage Realm, there wasn't a single one, making it absolutely impossible for them to contend with the dozen Zhou Family powerhouses.

In fact, Zhou He alone could effortlessly annihilate them.

The gap between the two sides was too vast; numbers were useless and couldn't bridge it.

"This isn't fair at all. Although we were all here when the Infinite Jade Disc was damaged, it has nothing to do with us," from within the crowd, a middle-aged man at the Third Layer of the Meridian Passage Realm said, his face grim, to Zhou He.

"Fair? To me, there are only the strong and the weak, nothing called fairness," Zhou He sneered and said, "I'll give you ten more seconds. If the culprit doesn't come forward when time's up, don't blame me then."

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