One morning, while Yang Kai was meditating, he suddenly opened his eyes as he felt a strange change in the World Energy around him.
It felt like some invisible force was drawing it in, gathering it in one specific direction.
Before he could even figure out what was happening, the situation became heated.
Even though he was indoors, Yang Kai felt a sudden gust of wind blowing and all the doors and windows began to creak.
Fei Yu also opened her beautiful eyes hastily and muttered, “This is…”
As she spoke, a light flickered across her eyes as she leapt towards the window and stared off into the distance, excitedly calling out, “The Thousand Year Demon Flower is about to bloom!”
Yang Kai’s spirit shook.
From the next room over, the sound of rustling clothes sounded. Apparently, Cang Yan and the others had already set out. Yang Kai and Fei Yu exchanged a single glance before the two of them also jumped out the window and flew off.
At the same time, all of Floating Clouds City began boiling up as countless cultivators rushed into the streets from all directions and stared towards the tall mountain in the distance.
“There’s movement from the Thousand Year Demon Flower!” Someone shouted.
This sentence set off everyone’s excitement.
Yang Kai narrowed his eyes and stared at the tall mountain peak, only to see, high up in the sky, a five coloured burst of light shining atop the clouds. World Energy continuously gathered towards the five coloured light while all of Floating Clouds City erupted into activity.
“Let’s go!” Cang Yan called out before transforming into a streak of light and speeding towards the mountain.
The crowd quickly followed behind.
*Shua Shua Shua…*
Countless people all began rushing out.
Yang Kai realized just how high the difficulty of this competition would be in an instant, there were Transcendent Realm masters everywhere he looked. Although only a few of them were Third Order, the total number of competitors was still far greater than what Cang Yan had previously estimated.
The Transcendents who just rushed out of Floating Clouds City already totalled more than four hundred, and that wasn’t even counting the ones who had camped out on the mountain in advance.
Even a conservative estimate right now would place the number of Transcendents involved in this event at over five hundred.
Such a terrifying number made Yang Kai’s scalp feel somewhat numb.
Above the City Lord’s Mansion, Ao Gu, Zhou Liang, and Jin Jiao stood tall, staring at the movement atop the distant mountain peak, each of them wore dignified expressions.
“Grandmaster seems to have gone as well,” Jin Jiao caught sight of a certain figure leaving the City Lord’s Mansion and commented.
(Silavin: They are referring to Di Yao’s Master)
“Hm? Isn’t Grandmaster a Saint Realm master? In the past, the Thousand Year Demon Flower failed to bloom because of the presence of a Saint,” Zhou Liang was shocked.
“You don’t have to worry about it. Grandmaster seems to have taken some kind of pill to temporarily suppress his cultivation,” Ao Gu said faintly, “After all, the last time the Thousand Year Demon Flower bloomed, he was the one who condensed its medicinal liquid. Obviously, he knows more about it than anyone else.”
Hearing this, Zhou Liang and Jin Jiao both breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they had only recently met Grandmaster and done him some small favours, they had already gained unimaginable benefits from him.
The Saint Pill the Grandmaster had refined for them had allowed both their physiques and Souls to grow substantially. Although the cultivation of the three Saints had not improved, all of them realized they had grown noticeably stronger.
Grandmaster arriving in Floating Clouds City was really an unexpected blessing for them.
In order to repay Grandmaster’s kindness, Ao Gu and the two Vice City Lords had spared no effort to ensure the safety of his disciple, dispatching the strongest guards from the City Lord’s Mansion to serve as his escorts.
From the Three Clans, a total of six Transcendents were deployed, two of which were Third Order while the others were all Second Order, it was a considerably luxurious lineup.
Ao Gu and the two Vice City Lords were originally preparing to snatch the medicinal liquid of the Thousand Year Demon Flower. Although the three of them no longer needed it, each of them had friends and relatives who could make sure of it.
But since Grandmaster arrived, the three of them felt somewhat embarrassed to ask for even more benefits.
Floating Clouds City’s Transcendent Realm masters all flew forward as swift as the wind, rushing to be the first to reach the peak of the mountain.
A grand battle had also already erupted at the foot of the mountain.
No one wanted to let someone else go first and everyone around was an enemy, so it was only natural that some hot-blooded individuals would think of eliminating their competition first. A little friction between individuals triggered small-scale battles which then expand and affected others, causing more and more masters to quickly join in.