Crimson dawn appeared at the far end of the sea, and golden morning light bathed all of Penglai Mountain in even greater splendor.
Cranes flew east as the Mist Sea churned, making Heavenly Dipper Mountain seem even more removed from the mundane world.
Unlike the handful of Spirit Transformation cultivators chatting freely in the sky, a sea of people already surged at the foot of Heavenly Dipper Mountain.
The Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Purple Palace cultivators who had once been so revered now stood almost entirely at the back.
Even the Golden Core true disciples of the major sects dared not stand at the front of the spirit mountain.
With Gold Condensation Pills and Heavenly Beast Infant Transformation Pills offered as ranking rewards today, it was not that these cultivators were unmoved. There were simply too many towering figures standing before them.
Never mind participating—even standing beside them brought immense pressure.
Today was also the opening day of the Nascent Soul rankings.
Not only had the immortal sects' Nascent Soul cultivators taken their places at the front, but nearly a hundred ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators were also waiting before the mountain.
And that was with Nascent Soul cultivators over eight hundred barred from participating. Otherwise, the number would have been considerably higher.
In particular, more than half the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Great Yu Realm had come.
Naturally, the Ye Family also had Nascent Soul cultivators before the spirit mountain.
Three of them were participating: Ye Haicheng, Ye Yunxi, and Ye Haihe.
Ye Haicheng and Ye Haihe were both nascent soul middle stage body cultivators. Now over seven hundred years old, they were just young enough to participate.
Ye Haicheng, in particular, had spent a long time honing himself in the nascent soul middle stage. After obtaining the