Northern Lands: "All-Out War Preparations"

Qin Huang, universally acknowledged as the strongest in Qinghe Heaven and Earth and the one who had single-handedly elevated Ganyang to the Divine Court, naturally became the alliance leader of Qinghe's temporary alliance. The leaders of the other Seven Great Divine Palaces served as deputy alliance leaders.

In the north of Qinghe Heaven and Earth, led primarily by the Cold Abyss Divine Palace and seconded by the Star Palace (Zhou Tian Star Dou Divine Palace), the foremost task was to arrange personnel to accelerate construction of the northern border's defensive line near the World Passage. At the same time, they expended resources to draw over a Sixth-Grade Immortal Vein and, regardless of cost, rapidly raise it to the seventh grade, erecting the "Zhenbei Chiyang Immortal Mansion" out of thin air at the heart of the Immortal Vein!

Under the Snow Emperor's orderly commands, all Immortal King Realm experts from the four first-rate powers in the north—the Northern Cold Tribe, Biyun Pavilion, Ziyun Sect, and Xianle Tower—were ordered to go and stand guard near the Zhenbei Chiyang Immortal Mansion that was about to be built.

Among those four first-rate powers, apart from Xianle Tower, which had two Immortal Kings, each of the other forces had only one Immortal King holding the fort. Of the four, the Northern Cold Tribe was the weakest overall, and its composition was also the most mixed, with living beings of every race among them.

The Northern Cold Tribe's chieftain was named Niu Wudi, an ox-type living being who had Ascended from the Lower Realm. His race was not particularly extraordinary; he had relied entirely on exceptionally good Fortune and fortuitous opportunities to break through his limits again and again, ultimately completing Dao Verification and reaching the Immortal King Realm.

However, the tribe under this ox demon