This day marked six hundred years since the founding of the New Immortal Realm, and five hundred years since the first Heaven's Pride Gathering.
The Second Heaven's Pride Congress had begun!
At the heart of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, the great square that had carried countless dreams and glories had long since been expanded until it resembled a continent of immortals.
Voices surged like a boiling sea, and a thousand wonders filled the air.
Heroes vied for supremacy, fighting to rule all under heaven!
Sword Qi soared to the heavens, and blade light arced across the sky.
Fists carried the will to pierce heaven; flesh and blood stood invincible!
Who among the heroes of the world would be king?
Who would stand atop the path of the Great Dao?
Ask all under heaven: who dared claim Venerable Attainment?
Hundreds of millions of prodigies from every heavenly domain and countless earthly realms of the New Immortal Realm had gathered here for this pinnacle event, held once every five hundred years.
Compared with the first gathering, its scale, the participants' average strength, and the ferocity of the competition had all risen tremendously!
Even with the qualifying requirements unchanged, more than ten times as many prodigies had reached the finals!
High in the sky floated several vast viewing platforms.
The largest stood at the center, woven naturally from the branches and leaves of the Chaos Immortal Tree. Light flowed over it in dazzling colors, its Dao resonance formed by heaven itself.
Four figures sat upon it. They made no effort to release their auras, yet the authority tempered by long years and the faint ripples of law resonating with the Great Dao around them proclaimed their formidable strength and exalted status.
They were the four founding elders of the Heavenly Dao Immortal