"Hoo..."

At a certain moment, when more and more people had gathered.

From the distant edge of the sky, the sound of something tearing through the wind suddenly entered everyone’s ears.

All of them subconsciously raised their eyes to look.

They saw a gigantic warship, at this moment cutting through the Void, rapidly speeding over.

On the warship stood over two hundred people; in the lead were three men and one woman—none other than Mo Wangchen, Xu Qingqiu, Li Mu, and Liu Qingxin.

After half a day, a full day and night of travel, the forces from the Holy City had finally arrived at the outskirts of the Divine King Tomb.

"Another large contingent has arrived; this time the competition is bound to be extremely intense."

"This is already the sixth group, right? Five groups came before them, all in large numbers. Each team had several hundred people, and the strongest ones even assembled a thousand!"

In the crowd, someone discussed softly. Those who arrived driving a warship could only be those large forces.

"Which side’s team is this? They seem a bit few in number—if you count carefully, it looks like not even three hundred?" someone couldn’t help but ask curiously.

And indeed, as he said, a team of three hundred counted as small. Of the five teams that had arrived earlier, even the fewest had five to six hundred people, while the most numbered up to a thousand.

"That’s Li Mu and Liu Qingxin from Beisheng City!"

"No wonder there are so few of them. I heard they fell out with Tianxuan Hall and the Divine Sword Sect, so for this exploration of the Divine King Tomb, there are no people from Tianxuan Hall or the Divine Sword Sect in their ranks."

"Liu Qingxin, known as the number one peerless beauty in the entire Canglong Universe, truly is as stunning as the legends say."

"The Liu Family of Canglong—its overall strength can rank top three in the entire universe. It’s said they possess a peerless Holy Technique, the Blood Sea Demon Sword Record. Its power can shake heaven and earth; once unleashed, none can withstand it!"

"Nearly half the Ancient Stars in the Canglong Universe have gone dark, desolate and lifeless. Rumor has it that in the Ancient era, a supreme powerhouse of the Liu Family fought an old enemy there. In that battle, sun and moon lost their light, the stars all fell; half the universe was blasted into a sea of corpses and blood."

"The Blood Sea Demon Sword Record is indeed terrifying, but the difficulty of cultivation is also frightful beyond compare. I heard Liu Qingxin comprehended it for nearly a thousand years and only recently grasped two moves from it."

"If you ask me, Li Mu is still the one more worth paying attention to. Among the younger generation of the Taixu Universe, the only Young King who has maintained an undefeated record is this Li Mu, the Li Family’s Saint Heir, isn’t he?"

The Taixu Universe—the one that truly ranks first in power among the Nine Great Universes. There, experts are as numerous as forests, prodigies as plentiful as stars; the intensity of competition is far beyond what the other eight universes can compare to. To be able to maintain an undefeated record in such an environment shows just how frightening Li Mu’s strength is.

At least among the younger generation, there were probably only a handful who could pose any threat to him.

"Who are those two other men standing beside Li Mu and Liu Qingxin?"

"They look rather unfamiliar. One of them also has the aura of Reverse Life Realm fourth layer—being able to stand side by side with Li Mu and the others isn’t hard to understand. But that white-robed youth, why does it seem like he’s only at first layer Reverse Life?"

"Maybe he’s concealing his cultivation..." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Amidst the crowd’s discussion, the huge warship slowly descended. Mo Wangchen and the two hundred plus behind him leaped down from the ship to the ground.

"This headcount is far from what I imagined. Why are there so few people?"

Sweeping his gaze around, Mo Wangchen found that although the people gathered outside the Tomb were not few, compared to the numbers he’d envisioned, there was still a huge discrepancy.

Liu Qingxin couldn’t help but smile at his words and said, "The Tomb has three entrances in total. What we see before us is only one of them. At the other two entrances, I’m afraid it’s just as packed with people."

"This competition will definitely be very fierce. Everyone, be cautious," Li Mu reminded.

Everyone nodded, then sat down on the spot. The Forbidden had not completely dissipated yet; this was not the best time to enter the Tomb. The only thing they could do was continue waiting where they were.

"Yesterday I already sent people to secretly investigate. After the gathering at the Holy Garden, Jiang Longwei and Jian Yi led quite a few experts out of the Holy City. If I’m not mistaken, they should have arrived as well by now, and should be in front of one of the other entrances," Liu Qingxin said with a slight frown.

"Jiang Longwei has drawn Nalan Kang to his side. That man is the number one expert of the younger generation in the Tianxuan Universe. This time he’s joined forces with Jiang Longwei and Jian Yi. If we run into them inside the Tomb, we’ll likely suffer some losses," Xu Qingqiu also couldn’t help but knit his brows.

Li Mu smiled faintly at that and said indifferently, "Don’t worry. To wound the enemy a thousand and lose eight hundred yourself—though our Holy City forces are overall a bit weaker, Jiang Longwei and the others won’t dare push us too hard either. Otherwise it’d be bad for both sides. After all, this exploration of the Tomb doesn’t involve just the two of us; there are quite a few other experts even more worth noting."

"See that red-clothed man over there? His name is Dugu Lang, the number one expert of the current younger generation in the Fengji Universe, and extremely belligerent—a battle maniac," Liu Qingxin narrowed her eyes, looking toward the left side of their group, finally locking onto a red-robed man at the very front of another nearby team.

"That man is Dugu Lang?" Li Mu also narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this.

He’d heard of Dugu Lang’s name not long after arriving in the Divine Domain.

Rumor had it that before the Divine Domain opened, this man had accidentally obtained a heaven-shaking opportunity; his cultivation soared from fifth layer Reverse Life Realm to sixth layer Realm.

Among all the geniuses participating in the Star Child Battle, he was one of the very few who had reached sixth layer Reverse Life Realm!

At this moment, Dugu Lang was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, seemingly unaffected by the whispers and discussions of the outside world.

"Hm?"

When Mo Wangchen turned his gaze over, he couldn’t help but frown slightly.

"What is it?" Li Mu asked subconsciously, not understanding.

"Shitian!"

Before Mo Wangchen could respond, Xu Qingqiu at his side had already changed expressions slightly and uttered these two words.

"Shitian Demon Body, Xing Tianyi!"

Mo Wangchen narrowed his eyes. Beside Dugu Lang, he saw Xing Tianyi in purple robes. At this moment, the other man was sitting cross-legged as well, and seemed to sense something, his gaze turning toward Mo Wangchen.

"Shitian Demon Body?"

Li Mu and Liu Qingxin both froze for a moment when they heard this, then exchanged glances.

Clearly, they were not very familiar with this name.

In truth, the Chaos Universe as a whole ranked last among the Nine Great Universes. Most people had only ever heard the names East Emperor, West Saint, Southern Immortal, and Northern Emperor.

As for people like Mo Wangchen and Xing Tianyi, they had never had much understanding in the past.

"He might have cultivation at third layer Reverse Life Realm, but he shouldn’t pose a threat to us, right?" Liu Qingxin sized up Xing Tianyi and spoke thus.

Xu Qingqiu, however, shook his head. "Same as Brother Mo, his strength can’t be judged by what you see on the surface. Xing Tianyi’s terror far exceeds common understanding. His Shitian Demon Body has already reached Great Success, and now that he’s stepped into third layer Reverse Life Realm, I’m afraid even ordinary fifth layer Reverse Life experts may not be his match."