Chapter 3660 — A Rich Reward
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
This meant that anyone who sought to trespass into the back mountain would not only have to face the layered prohibitions of the place, but would also have to stay ever wary of a siege by three or more elders at any given moment—a matter of no small consequence.
Since the very foundation and accumulated heritage of the entire Tri-Stack Pavilion were at stake, the back mountain could not be allowed to suffer the slightest mishap, and so it was only reasonable that such a formidable array stood ready in strict formation.
Under the watchful eyes of that layered guard, Hu Yunfeng led all the newcomers onto the plaza of the Back Mountain Hall, where they came to a halt and waited for the stationed elders to address them.
Because the trial site lay in the back mountain, the newcomers' trial was no longer solely a matter for the Welcome Pavilion; the Back Mountain Hall, too, needed to take part in coordinating it. And compared with Hu Yunfeng, master of the Welcome Pavilion, the stationed elders of the Back Mountain Hall clearly held the greater authority—so naturally their words carried more weight as well.
The newcomers held their breath and stilled their minds, every one of them gazing with reverence at the three stationed elders seated upright in the three open-air chairs before them.
This time was different from the last open-instruction day. Xu Yuanzheng and the others had also been elders, but to them a visit to the Welcome Pavilion was essentially the equivalent of a trip down to the grassroots; thus they had deliberately suppressed their auras in front of the newcomers, who could only sense that they held high rank and great authority, though not necessarily how terrifying they were.
But the three now facing the newcomers were elders in very truth, poised at all times for battle, and they had not suppressed their auras in the slightest.
Beneath the oppressive weight of those three vast and surging presences, the newcomers—though all of them had already advanced to the peak of the late Heaven Rank, masters of consummate strength—still found it hard even to breathe, their knees beginning to tremble beyond their control, and the weaker among them simply dropping to their knees in public on the spot.
Over this near month of cultivation, those newcomers who had not originally possessed consummate Heaven Rank strength had, thanks to the effects of their caves and spirit jade, all broken through to the consummate realm as well.
This was the difference between Cloud Terrace Island and the mundane world of cultivation. Spirit jade and cultivation caves—these were resources of the very highest order!
These three were indeed formidable. As a master of the early Foundation Establishment stage, Wei Zhao was not about to be frightened to his knees on the spot like the others, yet even he now faced enormous pressure.
It had been nearly a month since he came to Cloud Terrace Island, and this was the first time he had ever witnessed masters so powerful and so utterly unguarded—terrifying beings truly far, far beyond his own level!
From the depths of his heart, Wei Zhao at last felt once more that long-absent excitement, and with it came a yearning to grow stronger!
His early Foundation Establishment strength could sweep all before him in the mundane cultivation world, and that had begun to make Wei Zhao rather smug. Even after reaching Cloud Terrace Island, because he dwelled in the comparatively mild environment of the Welcome Pavilion, he still felt that everything was within his grasp, and he harbored no sense of crisis at all.