The Truth of Survival

The one who brought this news was a monk of illustrious standing—one of the elite prodigies. He was none other than Monk Wuming, whom Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth had encountered back then.

More than three months later, he had finally arrived in the Eastern Wasteland. Once he revealed the news, the entire Eastern Wasteland was shaken. It turned out that everything Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth had said that day was true.

After hearing of Chen Fan, Wuming also testified that Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth had met him in the Western Desert and saved his life. Yet when he heard that Chen Fan had leveled Shu Mountain First Peak with a single sword strike and slain the Shu Mountain sect master, his mouth fell open, and he was unable to recover for a long while.

The Shu Mountain sect master was a symbol of this realm's pinnacle strength, an invincible existence beneath the Integration Stage. How could he possibly have been slain by Chen Fan in a single sword strike? Even First Peak, which had endured through countless ages, had been reduced to ashes.

To verify it, Wuming personally made a trip to the former site of Shu Mountain First Peak, only to leave in stunned disbelief.

Yet after he brought news of the Western Desert's fall, every force in the Eastern Wasteland promptly contacted the Southern Continent and Northern Sea. All powerhouses above the Soul Division Stage, along with some at the Spirit Refining Stage, were summoned.

The Immortal Palace's powerhouses also emerged in force. Only the master of the Immortal Palace remained in seclusion and did not appear.

In the end, the leaders of the major forces from the three divine continents gathered together and began discussing how to hold back those powerhouses