At the foot of the endless mountains.
When Dongguan and Di Qing arrived, over a hundred cultivators had been waiting there. A group later left with Di Qing, leaving fewer than a hundred behind.
Before leaving, however, Di Qing had concealed Dongguan somewhat. The earliest arrivals also knew he was acquainted with a "senior God Emperor," so none entertained any designs on him.
Time gradually passed.
A flying boat slowly came to a stop, and figures flew out of it one after another.
Some chose to wait here and travel through to other cities, while others passed straight through the Dark Abyssal Pool to leave the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm.
After everyone dispersed, only a short, green-skinned youth remained. Swaying his monkey-like tail, he put away the flying boat.
Without concealing his aura, he descended to the ground.
"A God Emperor!"
"A Mid God Emperor expert!"
Quite a few cultivators were roused. Or rather, the cultivators waiting here were generally only in light cultivation.
Sensing the envy and reverence of these cultivators, God Emperor Chen Shi nodded in satisfaction.
He was only a Mid God Emperor bloodline cultivator. In Dragon Sleep City, his strength barely met the threshold for hunting, and experts gathered there in droves.
He could not display his aura without restraint there.
In his own Source World, he was the strongest, but the cultivators of his homeland were too weak.
Every time he passed through the Sacred Mountain on his travels and received so much reverence, he felt even the restlessness of his bloodline being soothed.
His gaze swept over his surroundings, and a lone figure in an out-of-the-way spot caught his attention.
He had heard of the "path of faith," a way to become a Lord of the Source World. His talent for illusion techniques was