The newly ascended Nascent Soul cultivator of the Moral Immortal Sect sent his soaring aura surging into the heavens.
Within Liu Dongqing's mind,
the instant that thought arose,
an invisible air of slaughter seemed to sweep across the vast world!
Every cultivator watching the contest at the Hanging World Great Wall—not just Liu Dongqing—realized that the decisive stage had arrived!
Who would open the first battle?
The Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect, whose own interests were at stake?
The Great Completion Immortal Sect, which Liu Dongqing had harmed most recently? The Pure Yang Sword Sect? The Celestial Phenomena Dao?
Or the Purple Spirit Manor, one of Central Province's oldest sects of the Sacred-Mystic Confluence, whose disciples Liu Dongqing had slain in the Yang World?
Perhaps even the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, whose senior disciple had lost face to him several times?
Counting them up,
more than one person felt a flicker of amusement.
Liu Dongqing had been famous across the Five Regions for only a short time compared with those veteran cultivators.
Yet in that brief rise to fame, he seemed to have made more enemies than many veterans could manage in a lifetime.
As the cultivators followed that thought and swept their gazes across the empty sky before the Hanging World Great Wall,
whoosh—
a nearly imperceptible sound split the air.
A Nascent Soul Dao Lord of the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect appeared first at the edge of the sky, just as nearly everyone had expected.
The instant he appeared,
he turned his cold, solemn eyes to the side.
He looked toward several formidable Demon Cultivators from the Great Completion Immortal Sect and the Pure Yang Sword Sect, who arrived barely half a breath later.
They exchanged slight nods, as though a thousand words had passed between them.
Then
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