October 10th, Wa Emperor Calendar 3593, within the Mountain Ruins...
The blazing sun hung high overhead. Across the sky for hundreds of miles as far as the eye could see, large numbers of human Divine Generals had already gathered. Some stood in twos and threes, while others traveled alone. Every human Divine General was watching a strange expanse of air thousands of miles away, as though waiting for something.
From afar, that strange expanse looked like an enormous spatial rupture, its area nearly as large as a small domain. Gray mist coiled everywhere within it, exuding a dangerous, deadly aura. Amidst the gray fog, the vague shape and outline of an immense mountain could be seen, both real and unreal. The mountain stood several thousand kilometers tall, vast beyond description. It seemed to be within the Mountain Ruins, yet also within that enormous spatial rupture. Upon closer inspection, however, it gave one the feeling of a fishbone caught precisely in one's throat.
That place was the core region of the Mountain Ruins—the most mysterious and most perilous place in the entire Sky-Piercing Realm. Under normal circumstances, any Divine General who entered would surely die with no chance of survival. Yet during the brief period beginning today, Divine Generals who entered might obtain tremendous opportunities—divine outfits, secret manuals, elemental crystals, and, of course, the Nine Heavens Divine Spring that everyone coveted.
The core region of the Mountain Ruins opened once every six jiazi, or 360 years. Today was precisely the day the Mountain Ruins opened wide.
Several days ago, human Divine Generals within the Mountain Ruins had already begun arriving to gather here. By today, their numbers had reached their peak. Many old-monster-level experts who had been cultivating in seclusion or hiding within the Mountain Ruins had emerged one after another,