More than six hundred thousand geniuses from worlds far and wide headed toward the Back Mountain in order of arrival.
The Azure Flame Spirit Pool lay behind this peak, in the Back Mountain.
Whoosh.
No one noticed a figure flash through the air.
Without a sound.
It went straight to the Storm Sovereign's side.
The newcomer was none other than Illusion Master Lingyan.
"Are you not afraid you've been too hard on these Little Ones?" Illusion Master Lingyan asked with a smile. "Ordinarily, only those in the Creation Realm can sense the Great Dao within the Azure Flame Stele. These Little Ones are merely at the Saint Martial Realm. How could they possibly sense it?"
As a fellow Nirvana Sovereign, Illusion Master Lingyan naturally knew the Storm Sovereign.
And though Qin Hao and the others did not know, how could Illusion Master Lingyan not? At their level of cultivation, sensing the Great Dao within the Azure Flame Stele was almost impossible.
The Storm Sovereign had used it as a pretext to reprimand these Little Ones and teach them that beyond the sky lay another sky, and beyond every person, someone greater.
"If they cannot endure even this, they will never accomplish anything in the Coming Future," the Storm Sovereign said coolly.
Illusion Master Lingyan nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly. He felt the Storm Sovereign had been rather harsh, but there was no denying he had everyone's interests at heart.
"Hm..." The Storm Sovereign suddenly gave a soft exclamation. "This young man seems to have sensed the Great Dao within the Azure Flame Stele and struck a resonance with it."
"Someone sensed it?" Illusion Master Lingyan froze, then immediately looked toward the Azure Flame Stele. At his level as a Three-Tribulation Sovereign, he could naturally sense the aura of its Great Dao. It