Return to Dongqi Dao Academy!

At the head of the hall.

The East River Palace Lord showed little surprise, but nodded and said, "In five hundred years, the Heavenly Court will hold another Great Expansion Tournament, which comes once every four hundred and ninety thousand years. If you are confident you can clear the seventh peak of Sword-Testing Peak while still in the Inner Landscape Realm, you need not hurry to advance to the Outer Landscape Realm. You might reap some rewards at the tournament."

The Great Expansion Tournament!

It was held only once every four hundred and ninety thousand years. Even among Fourth-Rank Upper Immortals, only one generation in ten was fortunate enough to witness it.

And it happened to fall in this era.

Unlike "promotion to chief disciple" and the "Immortal-Slaying Ranking," which Chen Jichuan had known nothing about because his cultivation was insufficient and he had paid no attention to outside affairs.

He had read accounts of the Great Expansion Tournament in the Dao Sect's Book Repository.

Though the accounts were vague, he knew it was a grand occasion for the Immortal Dao and the Dao Sects.

The True Immortal patriarchs of the Four Great Dao Sects and the eminent holy monks of the Western Continent Buddhist Sect would all attend. Transcendent Immortals from the Four Great Dao Sects and the four continents would compete at the tournament. Those who performed well would receive generous rewards from the True Immortals during the tournament and from their own Dao Sects afterward.

It was a grand gathering for the Dao Sects, and an opportunity for the Transcendent Immortals.

But participating in it was no easy matter.

Leaving other Transcendent Immortals aside for now.

Take Chen Jichuan alone.

The East River Palace Lord wanted him to clear the seventh peak of Sword-Testing Peak while in