Zhou Shengyan swept his divine sense through the ownerless storage pouch, roughly gauging the amount of spirit stones and medicinal pills inside. With a slight movement of his hand, he put the pouch away.
"Very well. I will speak to Immortal Lord Tian Feng on your behalf, but I cannot guarantee the outcome," Zhou Shengyan said.
"Many thanks, Immortal Envoy Zhou!" Ji Baixing clasped his hands and bowed to him.
Early the next morning, news that the Ten Thousand Nations Assembly would officially begin today spread throughout Black Mountain City.
Black Mountain City had been built against the mountain pass behind it, She Tian Mountain. Now that the city had expanded, most of it had shifted onto the plains south of She Tian Mountain.
However, the main body of the city still lay to the north. In particular, close against the pass of She Tian Mountain stood an enormously grand stretch of city wall.
The wall connected on both sides to the towering, precipitous slopes of She Tian Mountain, stretching across the more than ten-li-wide pass and sealing it completely shut.
The wall stood roughly a hundred zhang tall and was immensely thick. Standing atop it felt like standing in an exceptionally vast plaza.
Once word spread that the Ten Thousand Nations Assembly was about to formally begin, the thousands of cultivators throughout the city, long poised and ready, converged here.
After noon, everyone would set out from here and officially head for the Snow Region.
Everyone had thought that the people of the Holy Hall might finally have arrived in Black Mountain City last night, or perhaps this morning.
But that was not the case.
Rather, Ji Baixing of the Xia Kingdom had made a request to Immortal Dao Mountain. After the latter agreed, they decided to stop remaining