Gathering of Powerful Experts

The Five Elements Sect used thunderous means to purge the Profound Nether Sect and the Blood Vulture Clan, firmly claiming that mountain peak with an excellent view as their temporary base. News of this spread through the increasingly crowded and restless Bone Mountain Range as though it had grown wings.

Those factions and lone experts who had originally looked down on the Five Elements Sect as a newly risen force, or who had also coveted that mountain peak, were all inwardly shaken upon hearing that a Dou Venerate had been casually crushed and a local monster beast clan had been slaughtered to the last. They tacitly reined in their petty schemes and placed the Five Elements Sect among those not to be provoked lightly.

Lin Ming was quite pleased with this outcome. In a place as chaotic as this, establishing prestige appropriately was far more effective at reducing trouble than blindly keeping a low profile.

Once the base was secure, Lin Ming ordered everyone to rest and recover while keeping close watch on the ruins and the arrival of the various factions.

As the days passed, spatial fluctuations within the originally bone-chillingly white region at the center of the Bone Mountain Range became increasingly violent and chaotic. Faintly, the outline of a vast, illusory ancient palace seemed to flicker in and out of existence in the air, setting countless hearts racing. The number of experts gathering here had also reached an astonishing level.

The major top-tier and first-rate forces of the Middle Continent finally began to arrive one after another.

On this day, waves of burning-hot fluctuations rolled across the horizon as a sea of fire clouds swept in. Dozens of figures stood atop the clouds, led by a man with red hair and a red beard. His aura was