Time passed quickly!
Heavenly Moon Grotto swiftly stabilized and entered the time of its official opening.
This time, the number of people was considerable.
Not counting the three sects, Five Greats, and ten great clans, the smaller sects, minor schools, and independent cultivators alone had gathered to a number exceeding fifty thousand.
Among them, the number of Foundation Establishment participants alone had reached an utterly astonishing figure.
A full ten thousand!
Without question, far more than before.
Not only were their numbers greater, but before they had even entered, they had in fact already begun organizing themselves.
With the Five Greats at the head and the ten great clans as their support, the enormous force of ten thousand righteous path disciples was directly divided into five groups. Without a word, they sat in meditation along the outskirts of the Falling Star Mountain Range, quietly awaiting the arrival of the final moment.
"I reckon those demon scum are setting traps right about now, craning their necks as they wait for us to walk in."
At the center of the ten thousand people sat the Five Greats, with disciples of the ten great clans gathered around them.
They sat in a circle, eating freshly roasted demon beast meat and drinking spiritual wine brought from their sects.
The speaker was a Crimson Refining Sect disciple.
His hair was fiery red, and even his skin faintly glimmered crimson. His aura was exceptionally powerful.
The Crimson Refining Sect was a rare sect that cultivated both martial arts and cultivation. Though its disciples were at the Qi Refining stage, they focused primarily on the physical body and belonged to the school of Dharma-body cultivation.
By refining crimson fire essence, they continuously tempered their flesh as though it were a magical artifact, fusing special cultivation materials into