Clouds and mist drifted through the air.
A powerful aura suddenly erupted, scattering the mist and startling everyone into looking in the same direction.
Then.
Their surprise turned to delight.
"The gates are open! The Origin Sect's experts are coming down!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
In an instant, the crowds gathered below the Origin Sect's gates erupted with excitement.
They had waited here for so long.
Some had even arrived three to five days early.
All for one reason.
To wait for the day the Origin Sect opened its gates.
"Silence!"
A furious roar, like Thunder's wrath, drowned out every other sound.
Then a man flew through the air and landed on a temporary platform built from bluestone in the middle of the village.
"I am the Origin Sect's Mountain-Guarding Elder. No one is to make a commotion!"
Niu Feng swept his fierce gaze over the crowd. A terrifying aura erupted from him, leaving everyone trembling inwardly beneath its pressure.
With the Origin Sect's promotion to a Tier-Four Faction, he had also broken through to the True Martial Seventh Layer.
And since this was within the Origin Sect's territory, the faction bonus brought Niu Feng's cultivation all the way up to the True Martial Peak.
The True Martial Peak!
In a True Domain, that placed him among the strongest.
Most of those who had come to join the Origin Sect had low cultivation. Even True Martial Realm cultivators were exceedingly rare. Faced with such pressure, almost no one remained composed except for a handful of people.
Niu Feng was quite satisfied with their reactions.
"Those at Martial Entry, move to the right. Those at True Martial, move to the left. No fighting is permitted during this time. Anyone who violates this rule will be expelled from the Origin Sect's territory. Serious