The twelve of them traveled far and wide, gathering nearly all the details about their opponents.
As the situation grew increasingly tense, apart from leaving a few people behind to continue keeping watch, seven people including Chen Sigu gradually returned to await instructions from their sect.
"There are quite a few top-tier figures in this sword battle."
"The Seven Cultivator Swords led by Many-Treasure Boy Li Taixu of Changchun Rock Carefree Grotto at Lion Ridge need no introduction. Every one of them was a top-tier True Immortal who had entered the Ten Tribulations realm three thousand years ago. As for their current cultivation, even the weakest should have reached the Third or Fourth Tribulation. The strongest, like Li Taixu, had long since reached the Ninth Tribulation."
"Besides them, there are Colorful-Robed Madam, the Southern Borderlands Gu Immortal; Master Buwen, the 'Heroic Monk' of Three Wanderers Cave; Daoist Dayan of Song Ridge Chaotian Temple; Sun Ge, the 'White Hero' of Mount Min; and Master Miechen of Profound Moon Nunnery at White Bamboo Ravine."
"They are all Ten Tribulations True Immortals no weaker than Lion Ridge's Seven Cultivator Swords. Their cultivation is at least at the Fifth or Sixth Tribulation."
"There are even more figures a tier below them."
"Zhang Yang, the White-Haired Thunder God of Sea-Gazing Peak; Daoist Windfire of Flying Thunder Ridge in the Southern Borderlands; Li Nan; Zhao Yan'er, the Seven-Star Hand of Witch Mountain Gorge..."
Smiling Old Man Ji Deng wore his usual beaming smile as he counted the top experts on Lion Ridge's side, but his heart grew heavy.
More than three thousand years had passed.
The four sects of Peach Mountain had developed rapidly, with True Immortal experts emerging one after another.
But their opponents had not been idle either.
The top experts were growing ever