Several days later.
Within Chen Country, a subordinate nation of the Maple Leaf Li Family—one of the three ordinary righteous Nascent Soul forces in the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World, which had built its foundation upon the path of beast control.
At the summit of a barren mountain, Ling Pengyun, Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, Ling Yunhong of the Ling Clan, and several other Golden Core cultivators suddenly appeared.
Their expressions were all somewhat grave as they gazed toward a mist-shrouded place more than a hundred thousand li away.
Enhanced by various ocular arts, Ling Pengyun and the others easily saw through the mist and spotted an enormous, exceptionally conspicuous valley spanning at least a thousand zhang within.
Moreover, upon closer inspection with their ocular arts, they discovered that the valley was protected by a defense array with the aura of a Third Rank High Grade formation.
"I never expected the Demon Race to have managed Thousand Stars Valley so well after occupying it for merely a year."
Ling Pengyun was taken aback.
That Thousand Stars Valley, which spanned a full thousand zhang, had once been the strongest of Chen Country's three righteous Golden Core forces, and the only one that had taken formations as the foundation of its path.
Furthermore, according to Thousand Stars Old Man, the valley's former master, after Chen Country's major righteous forces had been destroyed a year ago, a Golden Core Completion Golden Winged Tiger—the one that had led several million demon beasts and tens of thousands of devil cultivators to flatten Chen Country—had brought a small number of demon beasts into Thousand Stars Valley to cultivate in seclusion, digesting the wealth gained from conquering Chen Country.
At the same time, it was stationed in Chen Country to intimidate the various righteous forces.
That Golden Core