The First Grand Supreme Elders to Emerge from Seclusion!

Three days later, Lu Changsheng, Li Changye, and Taiyuan True Person appeared in an uninhabited area north of Shushan.

Taiyuan True Person set up a Formation that would alert them to anyone who intruded.

Lu Changsheng's attempt to break through to the Void Refinement Realm was a major event for Shushan. Taiyuan True Person even came in person, as Sect Master, to stand guard over him.

Senior Brother Li Changye had also been summoned by Taiyuan True Person to stand guard.

There was no Mountain-Guarding Formation outside Shushan. If the Four Great Demonic Sects learned that Lu Changsheng, the peerless genius who had recently risen to prominence in Shushan, was undergoing Tribulation Transcendence, they would surely try to sabotage him.

Shushan dared not risk letting Lu Changsheng undergo Tribulation Transcendence outside alone.

Lu Changsheng's Innate Dao Body might draw down a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation and trigger Shushan's Mountain-Guarding Formation, so he could not undergo Tribulation Transcendence within Shushan.

Shushan had deep foundations. Not only did Taiyuan True Person and the Grand Supreme Elders protect it, but it also had the Mountain-Guarding Formation, which generations of Shushan Worthies had continually reinforced over hundreds of thousands of years.

Each time the Mountain-Guarding Formation was triggered, it needed a long time to recover. With the Six Great Sects facing off against the Four Great Demonic Sects, it would be far too great a loss if Shushan's Mountain-Guarding Formation were triggered by the Heavenly Tribulation Lu Changsheng drew down during his breakthrough.

"I spent fifty years preparing for Tribulation Transcendence, yet you, Junior Brother, needed only five to consolidate your realm. It seems quite possible that you are the One Destined to Face the Tribulation."

Li Changye stood with his hands behind his back, marveling at how quickly Lu Changsheng's cultivation had advanced. He