"Fusion Realm cultivators?"
The ancestor hiding within the Universe Pagoda froze at those words, momentarily stunned.
He was currently the only Fusion Realm cultivator in the entire Cold Abyss Nation. In the past, whenever the Cold Abyss Secret Realm opened, it had at most drawn Void Refinement Realm cultivators from the various households to compete for Yin-Yang Fruits. It had never alerted Fusion Realm beings from other regions.
"Xiao Yuan, could your senses be mistaken?" the ancestor asked gravely, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.
He truly found it hard to believe that such a small secret realm could attract so many supreme experts.
Emperor Xiao Yuan focused once more on the immense auras rolling toward them from afar. His voice filled with uncertainty and alarm as he continued transmitting, "Ancestor, there can be no mistake! They really are a whole group of Fusion Realm cultivators... and besides them, a large number of experts at the peak of the tenth layer of the Void Refinement Realm are accompanying them!"
"How is that possible!"
The ancestor inside the Universe Pagoda abruptly rose, no longer able to maintain his composure.
The Yin-Yang Fruits produced by the Cold Abyss Secret Realm merely extended a Void Refinement Realm cultivator's lifespan by three hundred years. By rights, they were nowhere near enough to attract so many peerless experts.
What change had occurred?
He had lived for two thousand years and had never heard of anything so strange.
"They're here! They're here!"
Emperor Xiao Yuan looked toward the horizon. Across the distant sky, densely packed black specks were rapidly growing larger, and waves of suffocating pressure poured down like a tide.
His entire body trembled slightly, his face drained of color.
The Imperial Clan had long been plotting for this opening of the Cold Abyss