Zhang Yuan had come only to investigate the changes in the mountain and accompany Cui Zhaowei through the [Ascending Mountain Pass]. He had no interest in Mount Junya's opportunities and did not want to rashly create fresh complications, so he paid Deng Yici and the others no further heed and entered the mountain with Cui Zhaowei.
The moment he entered, Zhang Yuan's brows knitted slightly as an invisible pressure crashed down on him.
This pressure was exceedingly unusual. It could suppress conceptual images, the physical body, cultivation realms, and even status. Even a Nine-Turn Qi Refining Perfected Person would be reduced to first-turn cultivation upon entering the mountain, while those who had yet to reach nine turns would be suppressed until they were no different from mortals. Even Foundation Establishment Celestials were not wholly immune.
At that moment, Zhang Yuan's Celestial Person Status was once again suppressed to a level above ten turns but below that of a Celestial Person.
With a slight shift of thought, Zhang Yuan deployed his Divine Ability, [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain], to bolster his status. In an instant, his status sprang back to the Celestial Person level.
Though the True Lord is dead, his lingering might remains. Still, this should be its final echo, Zhang Yuan thought as he carefully sensed the pressure.
The last time he had come to Mount Junya, there had been no pressure within the mountain. Clearly, someone had used some means to stir up this lingering might of the True Lord.
It was precisely this that had brought the many opportunities previously hidden within Mount Junya into the world all at once, creating the spectacle of Ya Kingdom cultivators flocking there.
"How do you feel?" Zhang Yuan asked Cui Zhaowei beside him.
For a Perfected Person to pass the