In the Nine Provinces, Underground City was now an immense hybrid city, built around the Underground City of the Old Era, covering a full fifth of the area of the entire Nine Provinces of the Old Era.
Powerful cultivators came and went amid endless crowds. It was the largest center for cultivator exchange in the world.
After all, the Nine Provinces could be said to have borne that great catastrophe alone. In the eyes of many in the new world, only the Nine Provinces could be called the orthodox home of cultivation.
At its very center, where Underground City had once stood, a magnificent building towered. Its antique sign bore several forceful, sharply wrought words: Mountain and River Iron Guards Headquarters.
More than fifty Dao Master-level branch directors were already waiting out front.
At that moment, figures emerged from the building, their powerful auras filling heaven and earth.
King Wei Wu, the King of Equality, the Mount Tai King, the Mountain God, the Dream God, the Old Celestial Master, and the newly appointed Yama King, Zhao Dayuan.
Most terrifying of all was the enormous head that silently emerged from behind the magnificent building. Its eyes were chilling. It was unmistakably a terrifying being at the very pinnacle of predators-a dragon!
"Lord King Zhu!"
Some Dao Masters could not help crying out. They realized that his strength seemed to have advanced again, reaching unfathomable heights. The vast blood qi he exuded seemed about to crush everything around him!
"The Great Tribulation is upon us. Everyone, are you ready to die?"
The voice shook heaven and earth.
Tie Zhu had now reached an unimaginable realm. Moreover, throughout the past thousand years, he had ruled the Nine Provinces. Since the King of Reincarnation, King Chen, and the First Emperor had left, no one