William Carter intended to use this heaven-defying technique to frighten off the group of cultivators. Although Benjamin Franklin's cultivation was formidable, in William Carter's eyes, he was not worth worrying about.

However, there were simply too many cultivators; even William Carter could not match them all.

Just as William Carter had expected, these cultivators were already disunited, and countless of them were terrified by William Carter's overwhelming display.

"Now that you are within our Annihilation Grand Array, do you still think you can escape?"

The speaker was Samuel Adams. His cultivation was on par with Benjamin Franklin, already at the late Nascent Soul stage, but when facing the only late Tribulation Transcender in the cultivation world, he still seemed insignificant.

"Why waste so many words with him? Just activate the Annihilation Grand Array—I don't believe he can escape!" Benjamin Franklin's magical treasure had its Dao patterns erased and he was seriously injured, making his hatred for William Carter even more apparent.

The Annihilation Grand Array was said to rival the might of heavenly tribulation, but it required ten thousand cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above to set up. Although there were many cultivators on the sea at this moment, they were still far from ten thousand.

And in order to ambush William Carter, they were even willing to lower their own cultivation by a whole realm, just to kill William Carter.

"Hiss... It seems you truly hate me, willing to lower your cultivation just to destroy me." William Carter still wore a playful smile. Even with disaster looming, he showed not a trace of despair, appearing far more composed than the cultivators besieging him.

"Your thousand years of tyrannical cultivation, relying on your medical skills to oppress your peers, your crimes are countless. Even if we are shattered to pieces today, we must destroy your spirit!" Benjamin Franklin roared in fury.

"Enough talk, delay brings change—activate the Annihilation Grand Array at once..."

Some could no longer wait to destroy William Carter. After all, with William Carter's peerless cultivation, who could guarantee he wouldn't use some divine power to escape?

All the cultivators unleashed their own powers, and the Annihilation Grand Array was activated. Within the array, all energy would be instantly annihilated—even someone as powerful as William Carter could not escape this calamity.

"With so many of you to accompany me in death, I can't say I'm losing out." William Carter said with a beaming smile.

"You think you can escape from this Annihilation Grand Array and come after us?"

"I can't, but within a thousand miles around here, I've set up a Void Grand Array. I really want to see you cultivators turn into drowned rats, haha..."

Everyone's expression changed dramatically. William Carter was clearly going for mutual destruction. The Void Grand Array would drain all the spiritual energy from heaven and earth and restrict their own immortal energy. Only William Carter in the entire cultivation world could set up a Void Grand Array spanning a thousand miles.

Depending on one's cultivation, it could restrict cultivators of different levels. William Carter's cultivation was undoubtedly the highest present, meaning no one on the scene could escape.

With no spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and their own immortal energy restricted, plus the fact that to avoid detection, the cultivators had set up a Concealment Array within this thousand-mile radius, creating a separate space—no one could enter from outside, and no one could leave from within.

Without immortal energy, they couldn't remove the Concealment Array, meaning they would all struggle helplessly in these monstrous waves like ordinary mortals, dying in the most miserable way above the East Sea.

Within the Annihilation Grand Array, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to churn violently. Every inch of air was like the explosion of thousands of nuclear bombs.

William Carter smiled as he activated the Void Grand Array. Even he could not use immortal energy within it.

In fact, William Carter had left himself no way out. He preferred to use the simplest method to destroy all his enemies, even if it meant mutual destruction.

The collision of energies instantly obliterated William Carter's once-powerful physical body.

Though his cultivation was strong, he had not yet reached the indestructible Golden Immortal stage; his body was only at the half-saint level. Only after passing the heavenly tribulation could he achieve immortality and eternal existence.

At the moment of his annihilation, his final gaze fell upon those cultivators plummeting from the sky like raindrops, and he revealed a look of utter satisfaction.

This life is enough—

William Carter did not see that, at the last moment, his life-bound magical treasure, the Hundred Lifetimes Divine Lotus, suddenly erupted with dazzling light, enveloping William Carter's final trace of consciousness and transforming into a pillar of light that shot into the sky.

The light pierced directly through the Annihilation Grand Array, entered the void, and disappeared. The light vanished in an instant, far beyond what the naked eye could perceive—even William Carter had not anticipated this.

The Hundred Lifetimes Divine Lotus was forged by William Carter over hundreds of years, gathering the strengths of a hundred schools, fusing the essence of thousands of magical treasures, and refining it with the finest natural treasures.

It was already the closest thing to an immortal artifact in the cultivation world, but it still lacked something: William Carter's Dao heart was not yet complete, so the Hundred Lifetimes Divine Lotus remained unfinished.

The so-called Dao heart, also known as realm, is like the phases of the moon—divided into eight stages: Initial Glimpse, Lower Profound, Upper Profound, Minor Achievement, Fragmented Nirvana, Peering into Heaven, Great Achievement, and Perfection. If the Dao heart reaches Perfection, the soul becomes saintly, immortal and indestructible.

William Carter's Dao heart cultivation was the Hundred Lifetimes Heavenly Dao. Although he did not need to reincarnate a hundred times, he still had to experience countless mortal tribulations to comprehend his own Dao heart.