Watching everything in the North Profound Realm develop in a promising direction, Ling Tian and the others were overjoyed. They did not grow complacent, though. They continued to cultivate diligently while closely monitoring the outside world for changes through the Nine-Colored Jade Slip.
Setting the North Profound Realm aside for now, let us turn to the alliance formed by the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Realms.
Having suffered a great loss in the North Profound Realm, the proud people of the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Realms were furious and humiliated. They would not let the matter rest. They continued working together, hoping to find Ling Tian and the others and wipe them out in one fell swoop.
Yet even after searching the area around the realm from end to end for hundreds of years, they still found no trace of the North Profound Realm's people. This left them baffled. In their eyes, a group of a thousand people was still a huge target; there was no way they could evade the search.
But that was exactly what had happened. They had no choice but to change their thinking, and soon concluded that the North Profound Realm's people had gone deeper into this realm. They did not give up, but continued tracking them.
It was not only the main forces led by deputy leaders like Yu Chi Mo who took part. Even the experts under leaders like Lei Zhan joined in. Having been outmaneuvered by the North Profound Realm's people had left Lei Zhan and the others seething with rage. They temporarily abandoned hunting people from other realms—even their hostility toward one another—and reached an agreement: they would settle the North Profound Realm, their thorn in the side, first, then compete for first place on their own merits.
That was precisely why