Immortal Origin Continent, Willow Wutong Province, Willow Chancellor Prefecture.
The gloomy sky grew ever darker as densely packed spirit vessels rose and gathered overhead. At this moment, the bleak gale howled as well, whipping the spiritual trees within the city into violent swaying.
Deafening beast roars rang out from time to time, echoing across the heavens. A massive spiritual barrier abruptly rose into the air, shielding the entire prefectural city, while an enormous beam of light shot toward the depths of the sky.
Before the city gates, spirit vessels descended one after another. More than ten cultivators emerged from one of them, led by none other than Ye Jingyu, Ye Haihe, and Ye Yunxuan.
All three wore rather unpleasant expressions.
They had originally been on their own spirit mountain, testing the spiritual roots of a new batch of clan members.
In recent years, because the clan members here had encouraged childbirth and intermarriage, quite a few descendants had been born.
Although Beast-Link Marks could not awaken in the Spirit Realm, the quality of one's spiritual roots still concerned a clan member's future and potential, and could not be overlooked.
Moreover, this time, a clan member with a three-spiritual-root physique had truly been born, whose spiritual-root affinity was no weaker than Ye Tengming's.
Just as they had been planning to celebrate, they had unexpectedly been urgently summoned to this prefectural city.
Along the way, they had already made inquiries and learned that this trip to the prefectural city was no good thing. Rather, it was a rare sight on the Immortal Origin Continent—foreign races assailing the border.
The Wind Origin Clan, Thousand-Eyed Race, and Scorpion Crystal Race had joined forces to invade, slaughtering no small number of human cultivators already.
Although only the first two races possessed Ninth Order existences, every