In his ten-thousand-word proclamation, the cultivator Gu Xinghan revealed the true nature of the Tianxuan Soul-Locking Array to the world:

To set the array in heaven’s place,

to steal its scepter and command.

A shadow bound to every form,

it watches over the lands.

Cultivation is siphoned away,

an offering to Tianxuan alone.

All living beings yoked as beasts—

before them, the Great Dao ends.

The proclamation enumerated the evils of the Soul-Locking Array and pointed out that the true form of the Tianxuan Soul-Locking Array was, in fact, the former Myriad Immortals Alliance’s supreme treasure, the Tianxuan Mirror.

To attain the Dao and achieve transcendence, the Tianxuan Mirror intended to use all the world’s cultivators as sacrificial offerings.

Gu Xinghan called upon cultivators to unite, to shatter the Soul-Locking Array, and restore clear skies to the Xuanhuang World.

Although the Celestial Alliance immediately issued a refutation,...