Everyone followed Cui Yuan's gaze.
Rumble!!!
At the far end of the eastern horizon.
A thunderous rumbling rang out.
Then the sky, already covered in clouds for ten thousand miles, suddenly darkened.
An utterly terrifying pressure swept in from the eastern horizon.
"ROAR!!!"
A flood dragon's long cry, sharp enough to pierce metal and shatter stone, exploded through the air!
The endless sea of clouds was brutally torn apart.
An enormous flood dragon, over a thousand zhang long and covered in azure scales, thrust its ferocious head out from above the clouds!
It was none other than the Qinghe Dragon King, a dragon-blooded Demon King of the Divine Mansion Realm.
At the sight of the Qinghe Dragon King.
Apart from the few Divine Mansion Realm Great Experts.
Everyone instinctively bent at the waist beneath his terrifying draconic might.
The Qinghe Dragon King swept his cold, slit-pupiled eyes over the crowd, scrutinizing them.
Then he transformed.
He became a burly, middle-aged man.
He glanced behind him, then bent at the waist before the crowd's astonished eyes.
The next instant.
The sky was torn completely open.
Dozens of enormous spirit ships sailed into Chu Province in a mighty procession.
Banners blotted out the sun above the ships, and armored soldiers stood in dense ranks.
These armored men were no ordinary soldiers.
Every one of them was a cultivator.
Even the weakest had reached the Body Realm.
A full fifty thousand elite cultivators.
Yet what truly made the people of Chu Province feel their scalps crawl and their divine souls tremble was not those fifty thousand elite cultivators.
It was the astounding sight at the center of the spirit ships!
Sixty-four incomparably powerful auras erupted in the air.
They belonged to sixty-four Great Cultivators of the Innate Realm!
In any province, an Innate