Time continued to pass.
Chen Yan's arrangements began to stir up waves in the Southern Bright Region.
Although none of what happened was under his direct control, he had entrusted it all to his thirty-six External Incarnations.
But that was already enough.
The Thousand Faces Sect.
The name of this cultivation faction was growing ever more renowned among the great powers and major sects of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
The reason, naturally, was the "Thousand Faces Sect cultivators" who had been active in every corner of the Southern Bright Region over the past two years or so.
Over those two years, these Thousand Faces Sect cultivators had been doing almost nothing but one thing.
They were courting the various cultivation factions of the Southern Bright Region to oppose the Southern Bright Sect.
It was not just Glazed Mountain, the Listening Willow Temple, the Purple Sky Sect, or the Pear Blossom Pavilion.
The first- and second-rate cultivation factions of the Southern Bright Region, along with its various cultivation dynasties, were all targets of the Thousand Faces Sect's overtures.
As for the Southern Bright Sect, as time passed, the various cultivation factions of the Southern Bright Region gradually began to learn about this mysterious sect that had followed the Southern Bright Sage tens of millions of years ago.
Top cultivation factions such as Glazed Mountain and the Listening Willow Temple, which had Void Return Realm True Lords presiding over them, clearly had access to more plentiful sources of information.
They knew what was happening beyond the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent at that very moment.
Heavenly Monarch Qingluo's life was drawing to a close.
A mighty figure of the Thirteenth Realm, the Void Creation Realm, had erected the Great Dao Boundary Stele forty million years ago, his influence extending across the Three Thousand Realms.
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