Double the divine sense of late core formation, the Candle Gaze Divine Ability shows its might, and the Secret Realm Core appears again

At that moment, in the Boundless Desert, outside the Bronze Palace.

Windblown sand filled the sky, and waves of heat roiled. The desert, silent for who knew how long, was now as clamorous as a marketplace.

Humans and demons had arrived together.

Streaks of escape light shot in from every direction, landing on the dunes outside the Bronze Palace. Multicolored spiritual light flashed, and the radiance of treasure artifacts interwove, colliding with the demon beasts' demonic auras and clouds and sending sand billowing into the sky.

Some packs of desert demon beasts arrived first and fought the cultivators, only to retreat time and again. The four local demons soon returned to take command, halting their decline. In addition, two demon beasts at the late third-tier peak crossed over from other territories.

One was a three-legged strange bird, golden from head to toe, with a wingspan of over ten zhang. Every beat of its wings stirred up a skyful of golden light.

The other was a giant lizard covered in rocky armor, like a moving fortress. Ordinary treasure artifacts struck its shell without leaving so much as a mark.

They kept many cultivators outside the Bronze Palace.

Of course, some swift cultivators entered the palace before the demon beasts arrived.

Others possessed astonishing means, swiftly driving back the beasts blocking their way and slipping straight into the palace through openings in their positions, disappearing from sight.

Had Lin Chang been watching outside, he would have noticed several entrants he had dealt with before or whose names he knew.

Daoist Heir Songyun, the true disciple of the Yan Kingdom's Heavenly Pillar Sage.

He arrived first and encountered no obstruction at all, shooting straight through the palace entrance like a pure-white divine arrow.

True Person Zhen, the hunchbacked elder of the Jin Kingdom's