Time rewound to not long before.
At the border between the Human Race Territory and the Demon Race Territory, Demon Severing Ridge.
The bitter wind howled, whipping up a skyful of yellow sand, yet it could not disperse the solemn heaviness weighing on the hearts of the gathered human cultivators.
Several thousand cultivators had come from the nearby continents. Every one of them wore a solemn expression, their robes snapping in the wind as they stared intently toward the Demon Race Territory.
They had all prepared themselves to fight to the death against the Demon Race's invasion and defend the Human Race Territory.
At the very front.
A golden figure sat cross-legged. It was none other than Divine King Hengyuan of the Myriad Buddha Holy Land.
He wore a gilded Buddhist robe. His features were resolute, yet an inextricable sorrow lingered between his brows.
His eyes were tightly shut, as though he were resting his mind—or perhaps gathering strength.
A golden Demon-Subduing Imperial Pestle hovered beside him.
The Emperor Dao Law coiled around it like faint Buddha Light, radiating a gentle yet imposing Emperor Dao pressure that made the surrounding cultivators instinctively keep their distance.
At that moment.
A Divine King in blue-gray battle armor strode forward. He came from an Eighth-tier Power, the "Heavenly Evolution Sect."
He held an ancient bronze treasure mirror in his hands.
The treasure mirror was roughly three feet square. Its back was carved with intricate astral runes, while a faint halo veiled its surface. It was none other than the Heavenly Evolution Sect's suppressing treasure—the Peering-Heaven Divine Mirror!
"Fellow Daoists, I will use the Peering-Heaven Divine Mirror to investigate the situation in the Monster Emperor Sect and see what has happened in the Demon Race!"
The Heavenly Evolution Sect's Divine King's booming voice spread