"Hiss... What a terrifying aura. Had I known that news of the Sinful Dao would spread and draw Tribulation Crossing stage magnates here, I never would have expected... so many to come at once."
"Those four seniors just now were all, without exception, at the Tribulation Crossing stage. If the four of them joined forces, even Yun Yan of Leizhou, who entered earlier, would likely be at a disadvantage."
"It seemed the opportunity here truly had nothing to do with us!"
"Yes. We people have spent so many days here, yet we have not even been able to break this formation."
"Even if we somehow entered, facing those old monsters at the Tribulation Crossing stage, we would not even know how we died."
"Speaking of which, where exactly did those four come from? Since when did the Azure Star Cultivation World have so many Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators?"
"Hmm? You did not recognize any of those people just now?"
"I could not say I recognized none of them. That man with crane-white hair and a childlike face, if I was not mistaken, should have been the Prefect Lord of Tiandu, Ye Tianling?"
"When Azure Star sealed the horde of demons, he had only been in the Body Integration Realm. How long had it been since then? Only a few hundred years, less than a thousand?"
"I truly had not expected his cultivation to break through to the Tribulation Crossing stage as well."
"Heh. If he had not broken through to the Tribulation Crossing stage, how could Heavenly Capital have made such frequent moves over the past few centuries, launching campaign after campaign against every faction?"
As their attention returned to the entrance of the Sinful Dao, voices rose one after another throughout the area.
Quite a few cultivators were