Hell Pass was a stronghold the Demon Immortal Clan had built long ago to guard the Yellow Springs Forbidden Zone against an invasion from the Dao One Immortal Realm. It stretched across a range of towering mountains, wreathed in churning demonic energy like a vision of hell.
The pass lay within the Tier-One Immortal Battlefield. Any Demon Immortal Clan cultivator who wanted to enter the battlefield had to go through it.
And cultivators from the Dao One Immortal Realm's camp had to break through Hell Pass before they could hope to find a route to the Taicang Immortal Realm.
At that moment, numerous Immortal-Below-Immortal cultivators stood on the mountains flanking Hell Pass. Their faces were grave as they waited patiently.
"Do you think Lu Ren will come?"
"That's his son. How could he not?"
"If I were him, I wouldn't. Anyone could guess we've laid a net across heaven and earth at Hell Pass!"
"With Lu Ren's fighting strength, we won't gain a thing at Yellow Springs Mountain while he's around. The Young Tribe Leader gave an absolute order: that man must die!"
The Demon Immortal Clan cultivators traded remarks.
Over the past hundred years, they had handed Lu Ren more than four thousand Immortal Points—the equivalent of over forty Immortal Pills. They might as well have given him those resources for free.
So they had to kill Lu Ren. If he survived and entered the Immortal Realm, he could exchange those points for Immortal Pills and grow stronger still.
Xue Wudi stepped forward and gazed into the distance. "Judging by Lu Ren's attitude, he'll probably come. A shame I won't get to kill him myself. But once he's dead, I'll still be the strongest of our generation!"
He truly wanted another fight with Lu Ren. His crushing defeat a