Wu Shi Imperial Jade

The loss of an ultimate weapon would be an earth-shaking upheaval for any faction.

The second Great Bandit, Blind Elder; the third Great Bandit, Xu Tianxiong; the sixth Great Bandit, Liu Feng; the eighth Great Bandit, Li Heng; the tenth Great Bandit, Sun Tianyun...

Aside from those away on missions, nearly all of the Thirteen Great Bandits of the Northern Region had arrived.

The ninth Great Bandit, Jiang Yi, had already been summoned back to his clan by the returned Divine King Taixu.

Within the blessed land and cave heaven, numerous great human cultivators had gathered, every one of them grim-faced. Even the void was warped by the pressure unintentionally leaking from them.

Even the weakest among them stood at the pinnacle of the first level of the Immortal Platform, half a step away from becoming a great cultivator.

There were two reasons why the Northern Region's Great Bandits could stand firm in the Northern Region without falling, and why even the many ultimate holy lands did not dare tear away all pretenses and eradicate them:

First was the existence of the ultimate imperial weapon, the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.

Second was the Northern Region's foremost Great Bandit, known as the Undying Old Man.

This foremost Great Bandit of the Northern Region possessed immense divine abilities and unfathomable cultivation.

A thousand years ago, he had once pursued a Holy Lord, nearly driving him into the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning.

He had also waited outside a holy land for several years just to twist off the head of a great human cultivator. Later, a saying spread: better to provoke a Holy Lord than the Undying Old Man.

The Black Iron Divine Token, renowned throughout the Northern Region, had also been bestowed by him.

Having not acted for a thousand years,