The challenge letter had been answered, and the news spread wildly through the Beast War Region as though it had grown wings.
In just one day, news that Thunder Abyss Mountain, Blood Dragon Hall, Ghost Vulture Ravine, and Golden Ape Mountain had formed an alliance called the Four Symbols Palace spread to every corner of the Beast War Region.
Countless factions were shaken by it. Some were exhilarated, some watched from the sidelines, and some sneered in secret.
Never in the Beast War Region's centuries of history had there been an alliance on such a grand scale. Now that the four major factions had united, they truly formed a force that could not be underestimated.
But what drew even more attention was the Heavenly Arena battle against Mangshan three days later.
If the Four Symbols Palace won, the Beast War Region would be able to swallow half of the Mangshan Region and rise into the ranks of the Demon Beast world's first-rate powers.
If they lost, they would have to cede half the Beast War Region's territory. The so-called alliance would collapse in an instant, its reputation utterly ruined.
This was a massive gamble.
Yet as the instigator of this gamble, Lin Dong had been exceptionally calm these past few days.
He sat cross-legged cultivating in a side hall on Thunder Abyss Mountain, sorting through the Thunder Ancestral Symbol and Devouring Ancestral Symbol within his body. At the same time, he studied the cultivation arts and martial skills he had brought from the Dao Sect, as well as the Great Teleportation Technique Luo Heng had given him.
Little Yan, meanwhile, spent every day drilling the Tiger Devouring Army. Its members had originally been the elite of the military, and under Little Yan's leadership, their combat strength steadily rose. They had