Outside Jiemie's cultivation grounds, the auras of dozens of Unity Realm experts loomed like heavy mountains, pressing down until even the laws of the entire Southern Wasteland Star Domain ground to a halt.
The standoff unfolded in silence.
True Lord Cang Lan and the others did not attack immediately. They were waiting, and probing.
Jiemie and his four companions did not yield either. Their mountain-protecting formation was already active, the laws of five Unity Realm experts interweaving into a barrier that was almost impossible to shake.
They knew full well that once fighting began, it would become a war engulfing the entire Hongmeng Universe.
No one wanted to be the first to ignite the powder keg.
News of this earth-shaking standoff spread throughout the Hongmeng Universe through various channels at an unprecedented speed.
For a time, every gaze turned toward the Southern Wasteland Star Domain, from the greatest powers of the Central Province Sacred Domain to rogue cultivators in remote star domains.
The Desolate Star Sea.
Inside a temporarily established cave abode, fourteen experts who had emerged from the Eternal Dao Realm gathered together.
True Lord Duobao's intelligence arrived almost at the same time as those Unity Realm experts.
After reading the intelligence jade slip, Hongchu slapped his thigh, his face brimming with glee at their misfortune.
"They're fighting! They're really fighting!"
"Dozens of Unity Realm experts blocking their doorstep! Jiemie and his bunch are in for it now!"
He rocked back and forth with laughter, as though he could already see Jiemie's cultivation grounds being torn apart.
Taiji and Taisu exchanged a glance and breathed sighs of relief as well.
"That was a vicious move by Heavenly River True Lord." Taiji shook his head.
"He blasted every old monster out of secluded cultivation. Jiemie and the others