The leader was a young man in white robes, holding a folding fan. The Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram of the True Martial Immortal Sect was embroidered on his chest. He was Lu Chengfeng, the sect's second-ranked prodigy.
Lu Chengfeng put away his folding fan and sized up Chen Changqing, who stood before the heavenly stairway.
"Chen Changqing of Mount Shu, seeing you once truly surpasses hearing of you a hundred times."
"To have slain Chu Heng and Gu Yuan outside the hall, your combat strength truly deserves to be called invincible within the Tribulation Transcendence Realm."
Lu Chengfeng's voice echoed across the empty plaza.
Beside him stood a burly young man with his upper body bare. Dense black dragon scales covered his skin, exuding a savage and baleful aura. He was Long Ao, the young king of the Ancient Dragon Clan.
Long Ao stared fixedly at Chen Changqing with eyes like bronze bells, snorting two streams of white vapor from his nostrils.
"Chen Changqing, you killed Long Tian of my Ancient Dragon Clan. Today, we'll settle that debt properly in this Immortal Hall."
Though the other three True Lord cultivators said nothing, they had each taken advantageous positions. Their invisible True Lord pressure blotted out the sky and covered the earth as it bore down on Chen Changqing.
The remaining twelve Tribulation Transcendence cultivators retreated to the rear, each summoning their natal spirit treasures to seal off every route of escape.
In their eyes, no matter how strong Chen Changqing was, he was ultimately only at the Late Tribulation Transcendence stage.
Outside, he might have been able to bully those Half-Step True Lords whose cultivation had been suppressed by relying on an Immortal Artifact and peerless sword arts.
But now, all five of them had crossed the Immortal-Mortal Heavenly Chasm within