Eastern Wasteland Region.
Several figures stood atop a near-vertical cliff, gazing into the distance.
The mountain wind howled, whipping their robes into loud flutters.
Besides Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun, there were also Hong, who had operated within the Heaven Domain these past years and obtained a six-mark Heaven Token, as well as the future Tyrant Sovereign, Kui, and the future Pill Ancestor, Hua.
Kui and Hua had also reached the peak of the God Forging Realm.
The two had left the Eastern Wasteland Region relatively late and had spent most of these years active in the Glorious World Domain. This time, they too had received word from Yi and rushed back.
Truthfully, returning here after so many years filled them all with emotion.
At that moment, Xu Xing was looking into the distance.
Dawn shone brilliantly beneath a cloudless sky stretching ten thousand miles.
Bright sunlight spilled across the earth. Amid the rolling mountains, colossal prehistoric beasts roared, shaking the forests.
It was an utterly ordinary sight.
Compared with over two hundred years ago, this place seemed not to have changed in the slightest.
Yet in Xu Xing's perception, there lingered a savage, baleful aura—oppressive and heavy, as if the slightest movement could crush him utterly to pieces.
"No wonder cultivators above the Nurturing Self Realm never set foot in the Eastern Wasteland Region," he could not help sighing.
That savage, baleful aura had not appeared only during the years they had been away. It had existed even before they grew up, perhaps even before they were born into this world.
They had merely been too weak to sense it before.
Though they were now only at the peak of the God Forging Realm, their combat strength already surpassed that of ordinary Nurturing Self Realm cultivators.
That was