In the Heavenly Deity Academy, in a secluded corner of the Divine Mountain cluster where the Official Disciples resided.
Figure after figure stood gathered in two groups, locked in a tense confrontation.
"How despicable! When the Nine-Life Heavenly Lord was here, they didn't dare come over. The moment he left, they came looking for trouble." A cultivator from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces clenched his fists and spoke through gritted teeth.
"There's nothing we can do. Apart from our very strongest, everyone from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces falls far short." A being beside him shook his head helplessly.
If the Three Thousand Dao Provinces had been screened using Boundless Heaven's standards for selecting disciples, the vast majority of these cultivators would have had to go home.
At present, the only young prodigies the Three Thousand Dao Provinces could proudly present were those few Young Supremes who had cultivated three strands of Immortal Qi.
Among them, Shi Yi remained in seclusion, while Shi Hao's whereabouts were unknown. The Ten-Crown King's background lay Above the Nine Heavens. Strictly speaking, he was not a prodigy of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces; the sect behind him had merely placed him in that realm deliberately to temper him. The Exiled Immortal came and went alone and never concerned himself with these matters. Only the Nine-Life Heavenly Lord would occasionally step forward.
When a Three-Immortal-Qi Bearer intervened, naturally, no one dared say a word.
But now, the Nine-Life Heavenly Lord had left with an elder, exposing the remaining cultivators from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.
To raise a king of venomous creatures, the Heavenly Deity Academy encouraged competition between cultivators, forbidding only the taking of lives.
That was precisely why these people dared come in such force.
"The Nine-Life Heavenly Lord can't get away. Let's