In the days since news spread that Confucian Mountain Duke had advanced to the Cave-Heaven Realm, more and more factions had sent envoys to offer their congratulations.
Among these envoys were not only local forces such as the Sky-Piercing Sword Sect and Moon Show Valley,
but also envoys from all kinds of factions that had relocated to the Southern Heaven Domain to make a living while fleeing the chaos of war.
Even forces from beyond the domain had sent people.
Not just factions such as the Wuji Sect of the Liyang Domain.
Several major forces from the domains bordering the Southern Heaven Domain had also sent people.
This made the entire Sacred Extremity Sect Gate incomparably lively,
and the momentum,
was far greater than when Yang Qingyun had advanced to the Cave-Heaven Realm!
However, this was not to say that, in outsiders' eyes, Yang Qingyun was inferior to Confucian Mountain Duke, and that was why the commotion surrounding Confucian Mountain Duke's advancement was so much greater than that surrounding Yang Qingyun's.
The truth was precisely the opposite.
In reality,
many of the large and small factions—especially those beyond the Southern Heaven Domain—had sent their envoys largely because of Yang Qingyun!
The supposed congratulations on Confucian Mountain Duke's advancement
were merely an excuse.
Their true target
was still Yang Qingyun.
The reason so few people had come to congratulate Yang Qingyun when he advanced to the Cave-Heaven Realm, apart from the local forces of the Southern Heaven Domain, was that the world had not yet suffered such a tremendous impact or descended into the chaos it was in now.
What was more, at that time, the Sacred Extremity Sect had merely produced a prodigy at the Cave-Heaven level.
Although Yang Qingyun had then been known as the number one of the