After the time it took to burn an incense stick.
Ke Ding's true body left the Immortal Tree Secret Realm. His gaze turned grave as he looked toward the Eternal Night Western Land. There were indeed rather too many Dao Ancestors in that territory, and quite a few wielded Great Dao Immortal Artifacts as well.
It could be called the most terrifying territory for Dao contention.
Only Shi Hong was exceptionally clever. He had never opened a path, allowing him to move with ease through this territory where Dao contention was so terrifying. He had secured the position of one of the Ten Dao Immortal Venerables, and now several Dao Ancestors had no way of dealing with him.
According to the Heavenly Dao Mirror, a Great Dao Immortal who had taken the first step was a One-Dao Ancestor, capable of fighting a Six-Tribulation Immortal of the Immortal Realm without defeat. Their precise battle strength was difficult to distinguish, for they possessed too many methods. Yet they could all restrain one another, each with victories and defeats, and none could kill the other.
Only freakish geniuses with Immortal Spiritual Roots like Meng Sheng could truly suppress One-Dao Ancestors. He had now broken through to Seven Tribulations, but had entered a difficult stage, his cultivation advancing with exceptional slowness.
Though Shi Hong was a Five-Tribulation Immortal, he cultivated ten Daos at once. His Immortal Body was extraordinarily vast, not the slightest bit inferior to Meng Sheng at Five Tribulations in his prime. He could battle the Path-Opening Ancestors of the Eternal Night Western Land, and had even achieved victories against them.
One had to know that defeating an opponent above one's cultivation realm in the Immortal Realm was already exceedingly heaven-defying. No one in the entire Eternal Night Western Land dared offend