Red Flame Sect

The mighty spectacle of the River-Facing Sect moving mountains and shifting rivers naturally could not be concealed from the various powers throughout the Red Flame Domain.

Moreover, vast numbers of Extraterrestrial Beings and Forbidden Lands had successively departed this world. Even the dullest fool knew that something earth-shaking must have happened here!

Very soon.

The news that "True Lord Azure Cloud intended to refine the Forbidden Lands and journey to the legendary Immortal Realm" spread across the entire Red Flame Domain.

The Four Great Immortal Sects—the Heavenly Sword Sect, Ghost Corpse Sect, Seven Star Altar, Moon-Deriving Sect, and the like—as well as cultivation factions large and small from every state and region, including the Five Poisons Sect, Black Fish Gang, and Biyi Valley; rogue cultivators and wandering adepts; even Sea Clan demon kings from the Sea of Buried Immortals, all rushed to Chong'a Mountain to pay homage to Shen Mo, the newly ascended Heavenly Monarch of this domain. They hoped to enter the Forbidden Lands and "ascend to the Immortal Realm" alongside him!

Shen Mo was generally not inclined to refuse these requests.

For one thing.

After becoming a Heavenly Monarch, he had only realized upon climbing the mountain how vast the sky truly was. His breadth of mind, vision, and aspirations had all surpassed those of ordinary people, and he would no longer brood over divisions between sects.

For another.

Over the past century or so, due to many causes such as the Heavenly Demon invasion and the upheaval of heaven and earth, the Five Great Immortal Sects and the cultivation world of the entire Red Flame Domain had maintained fairly close and harmonious relations.

Furthermore, when Shen Mo underwent his Dao-achievement tribulation, the Four Great Immortal Sects had acted against the ten-thousand-zhang-tall skeleton body Lin Zhaozai had transformed