Spirit Transformation Grand Ceremony: gathering storms in the Immortal City [monthly votes requested]

The years were merciless in the cultivation world, yet to cultivators, time was all too precious.

Ever since White Bone Superior advanced to Spirit Transformation, Cold Wind Immortal City had been preparing for a grand occasion.

In just five short years, countless cultivators had gathered here. Besides hoping to glimpse the splendor of a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch at the Spirit Transformation Grand Ceremony, they also intended to pledge themselves to this Heavenly Monarch who had risen from the ranks of rogue cultivators.

Cultivators from major factions, or those with sects and lineages of their own, would always trust their own people first, however weak those people might be.

White Bone Superior was different. He had been a lone rogue cultivator from beginning to end. Even with a few trusted followers, he was unlike those cultivators backed by sects and lineages.

He was a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch of purely rogue origins. His current actions were practically an open signal to the world that he intended to establish his own faction.

Moreover, Ice God Palace was eager for precisely that outcome. It directly announced that any spiritual lands reclaimed by cultivators under Heavenly Lord White Bone would fall under his authority.

Naturally, this drew countless cultivators and factions seeking to join him.

"A Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch! How many years has it been since one emerged among us rogue cultivators?"

"You're simply poorly informed, fellow Daoist. Heavenly Lord White Bone might be the only one in this region, but across the whole North Cold Continent, quite a few Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarchs came from rogue backgrounds."

"Look! That's the Tie lineage's flying boat. I never expected them to stake everything on this."

"Indeed. Ice God Palace is certainly lavish. It clearly wants Heavenly Lord White Bone to establish his own