Yujiang City.
The former capital of the Great Wu Kingdom was dotted with divine halls.
Groups of cultivators walked past the divine halls.
Deities patrolled the surroundings without pause.
The Three Divine Emperors had led their forces against the toughest nuts to crack, Great Jin and Great Yan, taking most of their fighting strength with them.
Security in the rear was naturally stricter than ever.
Even the air between the divine halls was heavy with tension.
Despite the many Incense Dao cultivators moving through the area and the large numbers of mortals filing into the divine halls, it was terrifyingly quiet and still.
Just then.
From an outermost divine hall far grander than those around it, a voice suddenly rang out, struggling to suppress its delight:
"The Dream Lord has returned!"
"The Divine Venerable Yin God has returned to his seat!"
The voice was like a signal.
Dozens of cultivators of the Yin God Lineage swiftly flew in from all around, landing before the divine hall.
They looked inside, their eyes filled with excitement and elation.
Nearly two hundred years!
Ever since Yin God had fallen, not only had his divine hall been pushed out of the innermost circle.
The cultivators who worshipped the Yin God Dream Lord had also lost their deity's protection and blessings. Their cultivation speed had plummeted, and they struggled to advance even an inch.
They had only managed to scrape by on spiritual objects and spirit plants accumulated in earlier years.
When the lower-ranking cultivators saw things turning sour, they could still pull out in time and turn to other divine halls while their cultivation remained low.
But these second-tier, third-tier, and fourth-tier cultivators were already completely bound to the Yin God Dream Lord. No Divine Venerable was willing to take them.
They could only