Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another dozen or so years passed.
During those years, Zhou Yang had visited most of the places worth seeing around Phoenix Palace, truly broadening his horizons.
Meanwhile, as the official opening of the Myriad Monster Immortal Gathering drew near, guests who had set out from all corners of the Demon Race and human territories gradually arrived at Phoenix Palace.
As one of the Demon Race's foremost powers, Phoenix Palace commanded enough prestige that many human immortal palaces could not refuse its invitation.
Thus, this Myriad Monster Immortal Gathering had drawn one or two hundred invited human True Immortals alone, most of them under ten thousand years of age.
As for the Demon Race True Spirits who had arrived, there were even more.
Including True Spirits like the ape demon and ox demon beside Zhou Yang, who had come merely to mooch food and drink while seeing the grand occasion, there were at least six or seven hundred.
Adding the True Spirits belonging to Phoenix Palace itself, nearly a thousand Seventh-tier beings had now gathered here at Phoenix Palace!!
Only because the Immortal Divine Tree towered beyond measure, with countless layered spaces upon it, could so many Seventh-tier beings gather here without causing any disturbance.
Had it been anywhere else, even the main peak of Crimson Firmament Immortal Palace's mountain gate could not have borne the breathing and cultivation of over a thousand Seventh-tier beings.
When the day the Myriad Monster Immortal Gathering truly began arrived, enormous flocks of demonic birds that blotted out the sky rose from the mountains and wilderness beneath the Immortal Divine Tree, forming gigantic phoenixes that danced gracefully through the air.
At the same time, clear and resonant Phoenix cries rang out from the Immortal Divine