After a round of discussion, Qin Fengming learned why Saintly Venerable Cantian, Yinluo Holy Lord, Ju Yang, and several dozen Mahayana cultivators had suddenly appeared in the secret realm.
It turned out that Hao Tian City had received news that Zou Rui had emerged from seclusion, so it had immediately sent several top-tier figures leading dozens of Mahayana cultivators to the Wumeng Mountain Forest region.
It was precisely because everyone had arrived that Zou Rui had not struck at once.
If there had only been those forty or fifty people led by He Gu, given Zou Rui's ruthlessness, he would never have promised to give them one strike. He would have attacked the moment he arrived and wiped them all out on the spot.
Afterward, everyone discussed the matter at length, but they were all utterly baffled. No one knew why Zou Rui was waiting for the Three Realms side to gather enough cultivators before starting the war.
Yet the gathered cultivators could only act according to Zou Rui's words, because in this great battle, the Three Realms side was clearly the passive party.
Even though the number of rebellious cultivators in the secret realm was currently smaller than that of the Three Realms side, the people of the Three Realms truly lacked the nerve to provoke them.
Not to mention that every one of them was immensely powerful, with most capable of fighting two opponents at once. Just Zou Rui alone holding the fort was enough to make the hundred Mahayana cultivators of the Three Realms afraid to casually step forward and fight.
The news that Zou Rui had suddenly appeared in the hidden space spread immediately, like a plague, rapidly reaching every corner of the Three Realms and the ears of the Mahayana cultivators in charge.
The Mahayana