On the Qiankun Continent, within a spatial rift.
Whoosh!
Within a hidden stretch of space, a burly man slowly emerged. He stood in the spatial rift, gazing ahead.
"I finally found it."
The burly man let out a soft breath, a trace of irritation in his eyes. "The Qiankun Sect actually used the Lingchang Cave Abode as the testing grounds for its Disciple Recruitment Assembly. Those lunatics!"
This burly man was none other than the man who called himself Lie Kong.
Ever since learning that the Qiankun Sect was holding a Disciple Recruitment Assembly and that Qin Hao was participating, the burly man had immediately begun searching for the Lingchang Cave Abode.
He had his mastery of the Way of Space to thank for this. Moreover, he had derived his own unique space chaos origin from the rule chaos origin. Otherwise, he would never have been able to find the Lingchang Cave Abode.
Even so.
It had taken the burly man several decades to finally locate the Lingchang Cave Abode.
This was precisely what the Formless Ancestor had worried about. Although he had discovered the Lingchang Cave Abode first, it lay within a spatial rift, and it had more than one entrance!
Other factions could discover it as well.
They merely needed time.
For that very reason, to seize the initiative, the Formless Ancestor could only arrange for the Disciple Recruitment Assembly to be held inside the Lingchang Cave Abode first, clearing out its outer Swamp Region in advance.
Now, this burly man had found the Lingchang Cave Abode as well.
Of course...
Although both were within the spatial rift, the burly man was nowhere near the Palace occupied by the Formless Ancestor, Phantom Shadow True God, and Starfall Lord.
Neither side could see the other.
"The Lingchang Cave Abode.