At that moment, two more groups arrived, one after the other.
One was the Phoenix Clan, with six members in all.
Leading them was a powerful figure: a blue-robed man with a cold bearing, holding an ice-blue feather fan.
His expression was icy, his eyes a glacial blue, and cold air radiated from his entire body.
Bai Ming, a prodigy of the Ice Phoenix lineage within the Phoenix Clan, was a Ninth Grade Sovereign.
The other group was the Heavenly Crane Clan.
They were all dressed in white, tall and slender, and handsome to a man—not a single one was ugly.
The Heavenly Crane Clan was another great power among the flying beast clans. Its foundation was no weaker than that of the Nine-Colored Peacock Clan or the Phoenix Clan, and its members were renowned throughout the Great Thousand for their beauty.
"Oh, has everyone arrived?"
The strongest heir of the Heavenly Crane Clan's current generation was a young man named He Yi. He was refined and scholarly, with a warm smile playing at the corners of his lips, like a young Heavenly God descended to earth.
"No. It seems one clan's contingent is still missing."
Lu Hou of the Heavenly Ape Clan stood leaning on his staff, gazing toward the horizon.
There, fierce winds surged as several streaks of light shot out from the clouds and headed straight for them.
After the Nine-Colored Peacock Clan, the Heavenly Ape Clan, the Kunpeng Clan, the Heavenly Crane Clan, and the Phoenix Clan, the sixth group—the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan—had arrived!
At that very moment, the sun hung high overhead. The Death Veil shrouding heaven and earth melted away rapidly with a sizzling hiss, like snow beneath a clearing sky, and vast quantities of deathly energy evaporated.
The God Tomb Garden had