A dozen or so years later, Wu Meng Island.
Crimson rays shrouded the skies above the island, casting the surrounding heavens in extraordinarily brilliant colors.
Yet this was not a natural phenomenon, but the result of Wu Meng Island sparing no Spirit Stones to activate its Island Protection Formation.
For today was Wu Meng Island's grand ritual, held once every ten years!
At this moment, black Wooden Pillars had been erected all across the island, with blazing flames burning in the Fire Basins atop them.
All the islanders had gathered around these Wooden Pillars, worshipping toward the center of the island. The scene was incomparably solemn!
Meanwhile, on a huge square at the center of Wu Meng Island, the three enormous fire racks, each dozens of zhang tall, had long since been lit.
At their center stood an altar, upon which was erected a statue of an Earth Deity more than ten zhang tall.
Countless eyes were currently fixed upon this statue. Most belonged to Luo Family cultivators cultivating on Wu Meng Island, though a small number came from its subordinate islands.
There were four people standing at the very front. The thick-browed, big-eyed man on the far left was Luo Feng, the current Clan Leader of the Luo Family.
Beside him stood a handsome, fair-faced young man, a Middle-aged Confucian Scholar with a black mole on his face, and a young woman displaying a deep, voluptuous cleavage.
All three were island masters of islands subordinate to Wu Meng Island, and all possessed Earth Immortal cultivation.
Yet at this moment, they could only follow Luo Feng, a Mahayana Cultivator, in paying respects to the Earth Deity statue on the altar.
Although their expressions held a trace of displeasure and their movements were clearly somewhat perfunctory compared with Luo Feng's solemn