Over three hundred Spirit Transformation stage masters gathered in the skies above the vast Eastern Sea, forming a group as they sped toward the Eastern Pole Sacred Land. The lineup was enormous and spectacular, a sight rarely seen in the Cultivation World. At the forefront were Nong Zhu, Wen Lanfeng, Li Duxing, and Hu Changshou, several late Spirit Transformation stage masters and, aside from Yue Qianchou, among the few remaining late Spirit Transformation stage experts in the Cultivation World. Most of the other late Spirit Transformation stage masters had died at the hands of the former and current Punishment Envoys of the Demon Ghost Domain...
Most of the several hundred behind them were mid Spirit Transformation stage lords from various nations, along with some early Spirit Transformation stage cultivators like Sikong Jue. Lu Yanqing was conspicuously among the group as well. There was no helping it—she too was a Spirit Transformation stage master. The Demon Ghost Domain's Punishment Envoy had issued a summons; who among the heroes of the world would dare disobey? The deaths of Pei Fang and the others were a lesson written in blood... Lu Yanqing no longer wore the veiled hat she had worn when leaving home. Her beautiful hair, now cut short, was wrapped in a silk scarf, and her expression was neither joyful nor sorrowful. Her stunning beauty should have drawn countless gazes, yet everyone looked more solemn than the last. No one was in the mood for amorous thoughts. Looking down at the surging waves of the sea below, their hearts rose and fell like the ocean itself. The opening of the Eastern Pole Sacred Land was no longer what concerned them most. What they feared was something else—the appointment at the Eastern Sea! At the thought of those words, the Spirit Transformation