More than a hundred and fifty True Immortals had come to observe this battle between Peak True Immortals, and over eighty percent of them had brought along disciples or junior family members.
These True Immortals were confident they could protect their own juniors during the battle, but this was a true fight to the death. With the Golden Crow Sect involved, it would be unlike an ordinary clash. Even if the heavens collapsed and the earth split apart, it would not be surprising.
Under such circumstances, a distance of a hundred li was absolutely not safe. They had to retreat at least five hundred li before it could be considered relatively secure, and even then, they needed to set up defensive formations.
Many people had already begun retreating and setting up defensive formations, even though the battle would not begin until tomorrow.
At the same time, some people approached Yi Jue's side, hoping to learn exactly what had happened.
Yi Jue's side consisted of four factions. Aside from the Spirit Plant Path, the Golden Crow Sect, the Grand Void, and the Mysterious Water Sect all had extensive reach. An extraordinary number of cultivators knew them.
In particular, each of these four factions had Peak Nascent Soul elders present. Some of those elders had not appeared in public for a very long time. Elder Qingmai of the Golden Crow Sect, for instance, was said to have been in secluded cultivation for years, attempting to break through into Soul Emergence. Yet he had appeared this time as well.
In truth, one only needed to look at the number and caliber of True Immortals from these four factions to understand just how determined Yi Jue's side was to take revenge. More than thirty True Immortals was not an especially large number, but their