The plaza seethed with people, all surging toward the same destination. Many others flew in from afar, and in the blink of an eye, the enormous plaza was packed with a dense sea of cultivators.
Every one of these rapidly gathering cultivators wore a look of pilgrimage, their faces alight with excitement.
Qin Fengming had already spotted a cultivator with his divine sense. He was a late Profound Tier cultivator, with silver hair falling to his shoulders and a full, ruddy face. Judging only by his complexion, he looked to be no more than forty or fifty.
He was tall and slender, with a faint fluorescent glow radiating from his body and a strange pill fragrance drifting through the air. From a distance, this male cultivator seemed utterly transcendent, like an exiled immortal descending to the mortal world, with the bearing of an immortal and the bones of the Dao.
Qin Fengming had not expected the appearance of a Pill Sovereign to cause such a scene. If it had been a Mahayana cultivator instead, there certainly would not have been such a commotion.
"Martial Uncle Hong, why didn't you notify Lanyi when you came to Yunli Island? Lanyi could have gone to welcome you."
Amid the crowd's uproar, a clear female cultivator's voice suddenly rang out before the main hall. It carried on and on, pressing down the clamor of the crowd.
As the voice sounded, Master Yi led several other Profound Tier cultivators swiftly to the hall entrance.
Several people hurried forward and bowed in greeting.
"Hahaha... So it's my niece Yi who's stationed here. Excellent. We haven't seen each other for over a hundred years, have we? You've advanced to the Profound Tier—that's truly wonderful."
When the female cultivator appeared, a smile immediately spread across the middle-aged man's