In the eyes of the world, the two embankment walls of Jialan and Lingze were natural chasms separating Eastern Ridge from Southern Marsh. Yet to someone like Qi Zhenzi, they might as well not have existed. Before long, Qi Zhenzi appeared above Tianmu Mountain in Eastern Ridge, with Mu Bai and Hu Meier appearing before the crowd one after the other.
Why was Qi Zhenzi in such a hurry to send Mu Bai back to Eastern Ridge? As it turned out, a grand contest between Heavenly Prides was unfolding there. Sects of every kind and large tribes had gathered at Tianmu Mountain to establish new rankings through battles between their respective heirs, dividing up Eastern Ridge's thousand-odd territories of varying sizes. Thus, it was also called the Eastern Ridge Prodigies Battle.
Those who ranked higher in the tournament could choose their territories first. Of course, the headquarters of the two super sects, the Primordial Soul Sect and the Kunling Sect, were excluded from the selection. Those were the very foundations of the two super sects.
Tianmu Mountain faced the Dao Sea, with Eastern Ridge at its back. It had a peak to the north and another to the south, each crowned by an enormous stone disc that covered the summit like a lofty, magnificent canopy. Seen from afar, they resembled the twin eyes of the Nine Heavens, unchanged since antiquity.
The Eastern Ridge Prodigies Battle took place atop Tianmu Mountain. The Three Great Super Sects—the Jialan Sect, the Primordial Soul Sect, and the Kunling Sect—as well as forces such as the Spirit Taming Sect, whose heirs had reached the Dao Zun Realm, used the stone disc on the Northern Peak of Tianmu Mountain as their battlefield. They fought for territories spanning five hundred thousand li or more, the distance a