Fudao Hall.
While Cheng Buzheng was quietly cultivating in seclusion.
Cheng Wenxin, the third-generation inheritor of the Cheng Immortal Clan's prudent clan ethos and a cultivator at the Peak Qi Refining Stage, was also undergoing a trial of the Cultivation World's unfathomable human hearts.
Outer Sea!
Near the edge of the continent, in a certain region.
Amid the unbroken mountain ranges!
A great river, like an immense dragon, wound through the land as roaring seawater surged and thundered down its channel.
Within the river!
From time to time, water-dwelling creatures with bared fangs and flailing claws, their intelligence clouded, could be seen.
Yet these Demonic Beasts were all first-rank; second-rank Demonic Beasts were scarcely ever seen.
This river was one of the many rivers linking the Endless Sea to the continent.
Likewise.
An Immortal Sect of tremendous strength was stationed at the river mouth here.
However, this place was extremely far from that river mouth!
In other words!
The aquatic creatures in these rivers had only survived the Great Array of that Immortal Sect by sheer luck, allowing them to flee far from the danger of being skinned and stripped to the bone.
At this moment!
The water-dwelling creatures, whose intelligence was incomplete, had completely calmed their instinctive terror and returned to their former instincts!
Of course.
Whether they could survive the hands of the many Immortal Sect disciples training within the continent was another matter entirely.
Just then.
An exceedingly faint ripple came from a Canyon not far from the bank of this river!
Had that Canyon not been so close to the river, no one would have noticed this change.
Following the direction from which that faint fluctuation came.
It originated from an uneven mountainside within the Canyon, crisscrossed by a thousand ravines.
This seemingly ordinary rock wall