The sound of the bell was not very loud, but it possessed tremendous penetrating power. Even the palace restrictions that divine sense could not probe were penetrated by its ringing.
Hearing the repeated peals of the bell, Qin Fengming was deeply shocked. The ringing actually contained some extremely profound musical rune patterns. Though they felt hazy and ethereal, he could still sense them.
If he could capture even one musical rune pattern, perhaps he could gain considerable enlightenment from it.
However, although the bell's ringing invaded his mind, it was extremely ethereal, and the energy it contained was exceedingly faint. Even if he wanted to capture it, doing so was difficult.
After leaving the palace, Qin Fengming was also startled by the scene before him.
The valley was now completely obscured by cultivators. Within the valley, which stretched for more than ten miles, there were already five or six thousand cultivators.
Of these many cultivators, apart from a dozen or two in the Integration Realm, all were in the Spirit Severing realm.
This was the first time Qin Fengming had ever seen several thousand Spirit Severing cultivators gathered in one place.
In the Human Realm, a Spirit Severing cultivator was already an existence akin to a god. But in the Spirit Realm, someone at such a level could only be considered an advanced cultivator.
Only those who had reached the Profound Rank or the Mahayana realm could truly be considered to stand at the summit of the Cultivation World.
Even so, the terrifying aura displayed by several thousand Spirit Severing cultivators gathered together was enough to leave anyone shaken.
It was like a large-scale war among mortals. When tens of thousands of mortal soldiers gathered together, the imposing force they displayed could make heaven and earth change color. And now,