Eastern Region, Ninth Azure Cloud Road.
The great powers each displayed their divine abilities, yet none could proceed as effortlessly as those three titans.
Farther below, Jiang Zhiyuan led the disciples of the Flowing Radiance Sect to stand before the Azure Cloud Road. Turning to his junior brothers, he said, "Everyone, this journey is perilous. Our strength is meager; we must not push beyond our limits. With this treasure to protect us, we need only advance steadily."
"Yes, Senior Brother Jiang!" his junior brothers answered in unison, their gazes resolute.
"Ten thousand leaves of flowing radiance, cross calamity and pierce the void. Condense!"
At Jiang Zhiyuan's low command, over a dozen Flowing Radiance Sect disciples performed Mystic Steps, their hands forming identical seals. Emerald-green immortal power spread beneath their feet, swiftly tracing a small, illusory boat shaped like a blade of grass.
The grass blade took form, emanating distinctive spatial fluctuations as it lifted them all.
Though it fell far short of the Yun Clan's specially crafted Cloudships, it still reduced the pressure on the Flowing Radiance Sect disciples within by nearly half, allowing them to barely maintain their formation and climb upward little by little.
Such were the small and midsized sects with established legacies: they always had a secret art or two tucked away at the bottom of their chests. And farther below...
Densely packed rogue cultivators crawled laboriously like ants! Every step was a struggle through a mire!
"...What the hell is this place?!" Li Ergou staggered, barely steadying himself. The light of his yellow List Mark flickered like a dying candle in the wind. He felt as though his bones were about to be crushed, his immortal origin sluggish as a frozen river.
Behind him, fewer than thirty of the hundreds of rogue cultivators in their