The dim red setting sun hung in the far west, its light washing the entire Heavenly Wood Spirit Mountain in deep crimson.
The boundary separating yin and yang still revolved high in the sky.
But the stifling atmosphere grew ever more oppressive, and beneath the two arrays, countless battle formations had already taken shape.
Over a thousand Purple Palace and Golden Core cultivators stood enveloped within those battle formations, their expressions grave as they alternated between looking into the distance and gazing up at the sky.
Above that black-and-white spiritual line, more than a dozen figures had already taken their places in the air.
An old man in a withered-yellow qilin robe stood beside Mu Huayuan, the Mu Family patriarch, who wore a beast robe.
Behind them stood Azure Severance, Fury Severance, Mu Minghe, and the Four Mysteries Ancient Lion, along with several unfamiliar figures.
"How are your injuries? If you can't manage, don't force yourself. If you die, I won't show your Mu Family any mercy." The old man in the qilin robe was the Glutton Demon Patriarch of Heavenly Severance Valley, whose true form was a taotie.
After speaking, he looked at Mu Minghe, then at the distant Four Mysteries Ancient Lion, and could not help licking his lips.
His cultivation method revolved around devouring. Sixth-stage Demon Saints and Spirit Transformation cultivators were both immensely nourishing to him.
Mu Huayuan did not answer. He merely looked at the group in the distance before asking the Glutton Demon Patriarch through voice transmission:
"Which of those three do you think is the real Ye Family?"
The Glutton Demon Patriarch snorted, unwilling to entertain Mu Huayuan. Only after a while did he ask:
"Did you really obtain that Ye Family treasure at Golden Light Temple?"
So much time had passed since