In the Sky Yin Mountain Range, a Second-Tier Demonic Beast had triggered a beast-tide uprising. The mounts of the Five Great Clans went berserk, causing the Five Great Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans to suffer an unfavorable first battle and retreat a thousand li.
Over the following months, the Five Great Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans launched several fierce offensives, calling upon the First-rate Powers of the major islands to gather and sweep away the beast-tide uprising. They advanced steadily, drawing close to the Foundation Establishment cave mansion.
Another rumor drove cultivators from the Five Great Islands and Thirty-Six Islands mad.
Venerable San Quan's Cave Mansion not only contained a Second-Tier Formation Inheritance, a Second-Tier Alchemy Inheritance, and a Second-Tier Beast Taming Method; its Storage Bag also held refined, unused Foundation Establishment Pills.
This rumor was highly credible.
Back then, San Quan Venerable had been a Rogue Cultivator who refined his own Foundation Establishment Pills and successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Realm through medicinal pills.
Thus, it was entirely believable that his Storage Bag contained Foundation Establishment Pills.
Even the Five Great Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans coveted San Quan Venerable's inheritance and remaining resources deeply. The five Foundation Establishment Realm clan heads had all set out together.
To the cultivators of the Sea Domain Archipelago, this inheritance was an even deadlier poison, enough to drive people mad.
However, the beast-tide uprising forced the Sea Domain Archipelago's cultivators into repeated retreats, and the two sides gradually fell into a tug-of-war.
The demonic beast army and the cultivator army faced off, slaughtering one another.
In the blink of an eye, Li Qingyuan had spent another year in seclusion.
Two years ago, Li Qingyuan's Qi Condensation Sixth Layer cultivation had reached perfection. After another year of tempering, the opportunity to break through the bottleneck