A group of people arrived in Divine Origin City.
This was not unusual. Although Divine Origin City was faintly surrounded by the demon beast allied forces, the name of Central Province's Heaven Origin Dao Sect weighed upon it. Over all these years, the demon beasts had never truly attacked the city, so cultivators had always come and gone.
However, this newly arrived group drew attention from every side the moment they entered the city.
They included cultivators of every realm, mostly Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators. They were relatively young, both men and women alike.
The one thing they shared was the identical coral flower family emblem embroidered upon their clothes.
They reeked of blood. Their expressions were numb, yet they also carried a trace of relief at having survived a calamity.
In secret, streams of Divine Sense communicated.
"Those are cultivators from the Coral Sea Zhou Family, aren't they?"
"Judging by that distinctive family emblem, it must be them. I never expected that, among the Ten Thousand Immortals Society's three great Nascent Soul families, the Coral Sea Zhou Family would be the one to hold out until the very end."
"The Tianqu Chen Family had Desperate Gorge Canal as a natural barrier, while Without End Valley was said to be a place from which ten thousand demons never returned. Yet under the Demon Alliance army, both were breached within mere years. Meanwhile, the unremarkable Coral Sea Zhou Family, with no dangerous terrain to rely upon, actually held out for a full twenty years. Tsk, tsk..."
"Lasting that long is indeed worthy of praise, but the Zhou Family once had over a hundred million clansmen and more than ten thousand cultivators. Now, I fear only this handful remains."
"Fellow Daoist Li, shall we find an opportunity to visit the