After Chi Xue had analyzed Ling Tian's strength and the might of the North Profound Realm, he decided to form alliances with other realms. There was someone in his realm with a peculiar ability: even through the Energy Membrane set up by the Lord of the Universe, he could communicate with others. After considerable effort, the people of the Heaven Realm made contact with the realm bordering their own.
Once they had contacted that realm, its cultivators reached out to the people in the next region. After several hundred years of effort, they managed to contact every realm except the North Profound Realm.
What followed was simple. Chi Xue deliberately exaggerated Ling Tian's strength, as well as the North Profound Realm's power and ambition, stirring fear in the leaders of those realms. Forming an alliance then became the natural next step.
Of course, many still had their doubts. Besides, the Energy Membrane had not yet been removed, so the alliance was purely formal and held little meaning.
But when they learned of the second task set by the Lord of the Universe, the leaders of those realms felt a mountain of pressure bearing down on them. Just as Ling Tian and the others had guessed, even they would find it extremely difficult to complete the task of collecting Soul Crystals, let alone the other realms.
Under that pressure, they became even more inclined to form an alliance. They knew that joining forces was their only chance to complete the task of killing God-level Stone People and obtaining Soul Crystals.
It had to be said that, to a large extent, the task set by the Lord of the Universe had brought about this alliance.
And so, as soon as the Energy Membrane was removed, the leaders of the various realms brought