After the many forces of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures were dumbfounded and left staring blankly, they felt both fury and delight deep down.
Their fury stemmed from the fact that a mere arrogant and ignorant Great Heavenly Venerable, having only just stepped into the Half-step Heavenly God Venerable realm, actually dared to declare that he would sweep through all the Martial Dao powers of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures.
What kind of behavior was this?
This was naked contempt for the many powerhouses of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures, even treating them as soft persimmons for anyone to squeeze.
This was disdain and utter disrespect, a vicious slap across their faces before countless fellow cultivators.
How could they not be enraged under such circumstances?
As for why they were delighted, it was because the Great Heavenly Venerable had taken the initiative to come knocking for a beating. More precisely, he had delivered an exceedingly rare opportunity right to their doorstep.
One had to know that the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Prefectures Grand Competition was of extraordinary significance. Everyone was aiming for the top one hundred and twenty.
Only those ranked within the top one hundred and twenty were qualified to enter the Ancient Immortal Realm ruins within Heavenly Evolution Metropolis for trials and obtain Supreme Opportunity.
Within the Ancient Immortal Realm ruins, apart from certain natural opportunities, what mattered more were the inheritances left behind by the exiles of the Immortal Realm.
These exiles had originally been powerhouses from Domain-level Martial Dao Powers. They had merely committed heinous crimes and were therefore banished to a place like the Ancient Immortal Realm.
Though they were exiles, they came from the Immortal Realm. Their strength and foundations naturally far surpassed anything city-level or prefecture-level forces could compare to.