Zao Xuan Charges Spirit Mountain

Outside the encirclement formed by the five spirit mountains at the entrance to Five Elements Heaven.

A tiny void rift, no larger than a needle's eye, opened in midair.

Within the void beyond the rift stood five figures, each radiating powerful spiritual light.

Their true forms were each shrouded in spiritual radiance, making it impossible for ordinary cultivators to glimpse their actual appearances.

They were the five great Zao Xuan True Persons of the First Cloud Realm.

They were Thunder Venerable of the Cangwu Sect, Evergreen of Azure Lake Blessed Land, Bai Cangzhu of Heavenly Qi, Tong Jiugao, and a bald monk covered in grime and dressed in tattered slovenliness.

Each of the five used their own methods to observe the situation outside through that void rift.

From the emergence of the five spirit mountains to the entire process of Hermit Beneath the Pines, transformed from Kong Jiao, entering Five Elements Heaven, they saw everything clearly.

"Where did this Hermit Beneath the Pines come from?" Evergreen glanced at the entrance to Five Elements Heaven where Kong Jiao had vanished, then turned to look at Thunder Venerable, who sat cross-legged in the void behind her with his eyes closed in meditation.

News that Hermit Beneath the Pines had refined a fourth-grade spirit pill had long spread among the Zao Xuan cultivators of the Azure Abyss Realm.

At first, the Zao Xuan cultivators had been rather pleased by the news.

After all, a pill grandmaster capable of refining fourth-grade pills would be a great help even to Zao Xuan True Persons. They would inevitably need his aid someday.

Thus, none of them had looked too deeply into Hermit Beneath the Pines's origins. The cultivation world was full of reclusive cultivators who never showed themselves.

Who would have thought that Hermit Beneath the