Just as Qin Fengming was carefully studying the Teleportation Array before him, four cultivators appeared outside Nine Heavens Mountain.
The four cultivators—three men and one woman—all possessed cultivation at or above the late Nascent Soul stage.
If Qin Fengming had been there, he would have recognized them at a glance. These four were none other than Du Longzi and his disciple from the Ghost Realm, with the couple Ni and Zhu, all of whom had crossed paths with him before.
The four had lingered in the Human Realm instead of leaving because they, too, had come for this overseas immortal mountain that appeared once every thirty thousand years.
The four had simply never expected the dangers within this immortal mountain to be so unfathomable. The moment they entered, they encountered a demonic beast blocking their path. Fortunately, all four were extraordinary figures, and when the couple executed some kind of combined attack secret art, the might of their attacks soared.
Combined with the demonized forms of Du Longzi and his disciple, they had managed to slay the demonic beast despite narrowly avoiding danger.
But after traveling for only a little over a month, the four encountered danger again. This time, they were trapped by a restriction.
Although the restriction was not a powerful offensive array, the four had exhausted every ounce of effort—truly moving heaven and earth—and spent several full months before barely breaking it.
As a result, by the time the four arrived at Nine Heavens Mountain, everyone present had already entered the mountain several days earlier.
After testing the eight mountain-path routes, the four blurred into motion and stepped onto one of the stone stairways.
Not long after the four vanished, two figures swayed into existence before the stone steps.
These two were none other than the wicked