The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord Reappeared

In Baiyue, atop a randomly chosen mountain, a cluster of palaces floated in the sky.

The fifth-rank cultivators sat scattered about, dozens of meters apart, each suspended in the air as they listened to the young master of Wushen Mountain before them issue commands, not daring to show the slightest disrespect.

The young master of Wushen Mountain before them was their lifeline. They did not know what they had to do to survive, but this young master did, so all they had to do was obey him.

Li Qi spoke eloquently from above, assigning tasks.

"Wenlang Kingdom Lord, Zhenning Kingdom Lord, Xiou Kingdom Lord, you will be responsible for the Zhuyong and Tuwei stages."

"Great Deer Kingdom Lord, you will bear the brunt of it, so the focus of the grand ritual will be on your territory. Stone Mountain Kingdom Lord and Mingqing Kingdom will support you from nearby."

Li Qi arranged every task with practiced ease. He had already laid out the grand ritual in advance: what each stage needed to do, what every kingdom needed to do, even what every city needed to do.

The whole of Baiyue contained several hundred different kingdoms. Their cities numbered close to a hundred thousand, while their living beings were counted in the hundreds of billions with ease. Yet in merely a few chen, Li Qi had started from scratch and accounted for the differing natures of every kingdom lord's cultivation methods, their respective specialties, every kind of geographical advantage, the movement of earth veins, the properties of the Gale Layer above, even local customs and social temperaments.

For example, Wenlang Kingdom ordinarily favored livestock sacrifices, so the Blood Sacrifice was assigned there. Wenlang Kingdom's national character was independent, and its customs prized battle and strife, so the "Tuwei" stage was placed