Lu State, outside Baimeng Mountain.
Above the sky, the morning sun had only just risen when more than ten thousand cultivators had already gathered below the mountain, tightly surrounding the Lingyin Sect's Mountain Protection Array ahead.
At that moment, atop a tall mountain not far away, more than a dozen Golden Core Cultivators in varied attire had gathered around a temporary command tent.
Standing at the head of the tent was a Grey-robed Elder with hair already streaked with white.
Several white clouds were embroidered upon his robes. He was Chen Wusi, a Golden Core Elder of the Yuxiao Sect.
Besides several Yuxiao Sect elders, those standing beside him included quite a few Golden Core Cultivators from other sects around Lu State.
They had gathered here to discuss how to breach the Mountain Protection Array before them at Baimeng Mountain.
As the Nascent Soul Sect that had ruled Lu State's Cultivation World for thousands of years, the Lingyin Sect had suffered tremendous losses in its years-long war with the Tianhai Alliance. Its control over the surrounding subordinate sects had long since weakened.
Moreover, Situ Yan, the Nascent Soul Old Ancestor within the sect, was gradually growing old, yet the sect had failed for so long to nurture a new Nascent Soul Cultivator to carry on its legacy.
These Golden Core forces that had once depended on the Lingyin Sect had gradually sensed that their master's decline was inevitable, forcing them to begin planning for their own futures in advance.
When they learned that the Lingyin Sect had attacked the Yuxiao Sect only to suffer a crushing defeat instead,
these subordinate forces, which had long maintained secret contact with the Yuxiao Sect, changed their stance one after another, choosing to turn against the Lingyin Sect and stand with the Yuxiao Sect.