Outside Great Thunderclap Temple, powerful experts stood atop the peaks of countless supreme mountains, each one staring intently toward Great Thunderclap Temple.
Zhong Shan's group was among them as well, standing atop a supreme mountain they had just seized and watching the distant battle.
Great Thunderclap Temple had once been the strongest force in the Four Great Continents.
Within it was Tathagata Buddha Ancestor, unrivaled beneath heaven and earth!
Yet everything began to change several hundred years ago, when Biyou Palace rose to prominence. The appearance of Thirty had completely altered the situation across the Four Great Continents. Though Thirty had kept a low profile and had fought only twice so far, those two battles alone had intimidated nearly everyone.
In the first battle, Thirty had fought Confucius to a draw. In the second, Thirty had actually dealt Tathagata Buddha Ancestor severe injuries.
Now, while Tathagata Buddha Ancestor had returned to heal, his "old enemy" had actually come knocking?
Eastern Continent had fallen into chaos. Countless experts had rushed here for Purple Cloud Palace—for nearly all the power, and even some of the supreme treasures, once possessed by Number One Under Heaven.
Purple Cloud Palace had yet to reveal itself, but the entire Eastern Continent was already shrouded in an oppressive atmosphere.
The assembled ministers stood behind Zhong Shan, watching the distant battle with him.
Zhong Shan had filtered out the white-robed swordsmen on the outskirts, but he saw a powerful battlefield at the periphery of Spirit Mountain.
At a glance, the distant scene looked like a golden sea. Spirit Mountain and Great Thunderclap Temple had become an island in that golden ocean, while golden waves crashed against the shore and surged into the sky.
In the heavens, countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas wielded their respective treasures and charged straight down