Crimson dawn appeared at the far end of the sea, and golden morning light bathed Penglai Mountain, making it shine all the more brilliantly in gold and jade.
Cranes flew eastward, and the sea of mist rolled, making Tiangang Mountain seem even more detached from the world.
Unlike the handful of Spirit Transformation cultivators chatting freely in the sky, the foot of Tiangang Mountain was already a surging sea of people.
The Gold Core, Foundation Establishment, and Purple Mansion cultivators who had once received immense admiration were now almost all relegated to the back.
Even the true inheritance Gold Core cultivators from the major sects did not dare stand before the Spirit Mountain.
With Gold Core Pills and Celestial Beast Nascent Soul Pills as rewards on the rankings today, it was not that these cultivators were unmoved. It was simply that too many towering figures stood before them.
Forget participating—even standing off to the side brought immense pressure.
Today was also the day the Nascent Soul rankings opened.
Not only had the Nascent Soul cultivators of the immortal sects taken the front positions, nearly a hundred ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators were waiting before the mountain as well.
That was only because Nascent Soul cultivators over eight hundred years old could not participate. Otherwise, the number would have been far greater.
In particular, nearly half of Great Yu Realm's Nascent Soul cultivators had come.
Naturally, the Ye Family had Nascent Soul cultivators present before the Spirit Mountain as well.
Three Nascent Soul cultivators were participating: Ye Haicheng, Ye Yunxi, and Ye Haihe.
Both Ye Haicheng and Ye Haihe were mid-stage Nascent Soul body cultivators. They were now over seven hundred years old, just within the eligibility limit.
Ye Haicheng in particular had been tempered in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage for