Ten years later, east of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.
Lushan State, located east of Zheng State, was likewise a smaller country within the Floating Cloud Mountain Range. It was filled with towering mountains and rolling hills, and had even fewer cultivators than neighboring Zheng State.
Because its location was already close to the eastern Duan Yun Mountain Range, although Lushan State had few cultivators within its borders, many cultivators passed through this place on their way to the Eastern Sea Cultivation World.
High-tier Cultivators riding flying swords or controlling Flying Boats could often be seen passing high overhead.
Within a mountain range north of Lushan State, on this day, a Five-Colored Divine Glow suddenly lit up out of nowhere in the originally cloudless sky. Its radiance was exceptionally dazzling, faintly visible even dozens of li away.
In this uninhabited mountain range, the first to discover the divine glow were the wild beasts in the nearby mountains and the many birds in the sky.
Seeing the divine glow emerge, those birds were immediately drawn toward it, gathering beneath the glow.
Yet just as they tried to approach the divine glow above, an invisible force in the void suddenly pushed them away. They simply could not get close, and could only circle endlessly below it.
As countless birds continued flocking in from outside, a cry suddenly rang out from the distant sky. Immediately afterward, a gray bird with a wingspan of two zhang flew toward the divine glow.
Seeing that the newcomer was actually a Foundation Establishment Realm demon beast, the birds gathered there scattered in panic, spreading their wings and swiftly fleeing the area.
Seeing the surrounding birds retreat one after another before its powerful aura, the gray bird, the nearby overlord, revealed a few traces of satisfaction in its