"So many people? Hmm, there's a formation inside Mystic Ice Star."
Qin Hao had only just arrived at Mystic Ice Star and had yet to enter it, but a sweep of his divine sense revealed the entire planet's situation.
As Qin Hao's divine sense enveloped Mystic Ice Star, he distinctly sensed a force resisting it, preventing him from probing inside. That force was limited, however. He expanded his divine sense slightly and easily broke through the obstruction, examining the planet's interior.
"That's normal. Battles can break out near the Nether River at any moment, so every Checkpoint Planet has formations. Most only serve as warnings, though. They can't withstand an Ancestral God's attacks."
True Lord Xuyang shook his head, then looked toward the Nether River, now close at hand, with a complicated expression. Back then, he had ambushed the Outer Realm Demon Spirits near a meteorite in the Nether River, only to encounter its Eternal Storm...
The other Ancestral Gods who had joined his ambush remained missing even now. The moment True Lord Xuyang returned to the Netherworld Star Domain, he had contacted them, but not a single reply had come.
"At least a hundred Ancestral Gods, and countless True Gods. To think a single checkpoint has so many cultivators stationed there."
Qin Hao was inwardly startled.
He sensed more than a hundred Ancestral Gods on Mystic Ice Star, including three Four-Star Ancestral Gods and over twenty Three-Star Ancestral Gods. Most of the rest were Two-Star Ancestral Gods.
There were actually relatively few One-Star Ancestral Gods. As for Eternal True Gods, there were far more, and the vast majority were at that level.
Qin Hao also sensed quite a few half-step ancestral gods. Several had clearly reached the threshold of a breakthrough and could enter the ancestral god realm at