Bang, bang, bang, bang!
After passing through the Rubble Forest and racing onward for over two hours, Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast finally reached a dense forest where they could see the Nether Demon Palace's mountain up close.
The Nether Demon Palace stood atop an enormous mountain, towering countless tens of thousands of feet high. A flight of stone steps led straight to the palace, like a road ascending to heaven.
At the foot of the mountain lay an open stretch of grassland.
Over a hundred people had gathered there.
One group was unmistakably made up of disciples from the Southern Reach.
There were people from the Myriad Phenomena Hall, as well as the Red Feather Sword Sect, the Limitless Sect, the Northern Yan Dynasty, and the Great Chu Dynasty.
Every faction, however, had lost people.
The Imperial Extremity Valley had suffered the worst losses, with only three young men remaining.
Even the Myriad Phenomena Hall, the Red Feather Sword Sect, and the other factions had seen their numbers dwindle sharply.
Clearly, they had encountered many dangers on their way to the Nether Demon Palace.
Those dangers had thinned their ranks.
"Ziqing."
Qin Hao spotted Mu Ziqing, Jiang Yue, and the others among the Myriad Phenomena Hall's group and breathed a sigh of relief. Then his eyes narrowed as he looked at the people fighting.
Otherworldly Prodigies?
Besides the people from the Southern Reach, there were nine unfamiliar faces.
Six men and three women.
They seemed to belong to different factions, with the nine standing in three separate directions.
Two young men with powerful auras were currently fighting. Their opponents from the Southern Reach were Chen Jianqing, Zhuge Hong, Ji Fenglan, and Chu Xu!
Four of the Southern Reach's Five Great Prodigies had taken the field!
The remaining prodigy