Led by Nie Wuchen, the four cultivators from the Fuyao Sect arrived in the Northwest. Of the eight major powers from the Central Region, only Kudhan Temple had yet to arrive.
Nie Wuchen entered the secluded cultivation space to sit and talk with Chen Yang and Dark Underworld Venerable, while the four who accompanied him settled into an immortal mountain within the Yang Family Sacred Land.
The Yang Clan placed no restrictions on where the visiting cultivators stayed, but those from the Central Region who had come this far knew how to read the room.
Ever since the first group arrived, they had deliberately left the westernmost immortal mountain empty. No one chose it; they were saving it for the Profound Insight Venerables still to come.
After all, the venerables' command of spatial Daoist Magic was far beyond that of True Intent Cultivators. Sharing a mountain with them gave the others plenty to worry about. If a venerable wanted to spy on them, they would never even notice.
So, to be safe—and to avoid disturbing or offending the visiting venerables—everyone had tacitly made the same choice.
Apart from the mountain reserved for the Profound Insight cultivators, the four remaining immortal mountains had developed a curious division as the guests arrived.
The easternmost mountain, for instance, housed cultivators from eight powers that had never dealt with the Yang Clan before and had only gained this opportunity through their visit to Ziyun Mountain.
On the next mountain to the west stayed the Central Region powers that had no prior ties to the Yang Clan but had come with many other cultivators to support the fighting in the Barbarian Land when the Demonic Dao launched its surprise attack on the Northwest.
The Yang Clan had invited every one of the powers that had