Changshan Tower and an old acquaintance!

Kuye Devil Lord tried many times afterward, but never got his wish.

From then on, he kept trying to break the formation while searching Divine Land for Peak Transcendent Immortals. He secretly captured them, poisoned and enslaved them, then sent them into the cave abode to search for treasures on his behalf.

Over more than forty thousand years, he had indeed obtained quite a few treasures.

But those treasures were valuable only by the standards of Fourth-Rank Upper Immortals. Precious as they were to Transcendent Immortals, they meant little to a True Immortal like Kuye Devil Lord.

Magic treasures.

Pills.

Origin Jade.

Even treasures that aided enlightenment, such as Three-Autumn Jade Nectar and the Harmony-Through Immortal Fruit, held little appeal for him.

Wondrous treasures.

Immortal artifacts.

Cultivation Methods.

Divine abilities.

Those were what he wanted.

But ordinary Peak Transcendent Immortals stood no chance of obtaining treasures of that caliber from the ruins.

Only Transcendent Immortals like the Two Immortals of Xuanyang, who could contend with True Immortals, had any hope.

Kuye Devil Lord had been searching all along.

Yet sometimes seven or eight eras would pass without a Transcendent Immortal like that appearing. He had expected a long wait, but the Two Immortals of Xuanyang rose to prominence and gave him hope.

That was why he had invited them.

More importantly, though—

A little over a thousand years ago, as rotten luck would have it, two other True Immortals had found the ruins. Kuye Devil Lord did not fear them, but he could not defeat them either.

He was in such a hurry now mainly because he had competition.

Otherwise, after the way Five-Thunder Immortal Qizhenzi had threatened and pressured him, Kuye Devil Lord would sooner have waited another seven or eight eras, another several hundred thousand years, than let