After stepping out of the secret realm, Ash tilted his head to the right and smiled. "Xue Ying, how's the overall situation?"
"Everything is proceeding according to plan," Xue Ying answered, gliding from the house's shadow as if she'd been part of it.
"That's good." Ash nodded, then flicked a look at Aetherion. "What are we waiting for?"
"Say less." Aetherion sneered and tore open space with a lazy wave of his hand.
…
A vast grassland stretched to the horizon, packed with thousands of people—more than ninety percent of them young men hungry for glory. The instant a spatial crack split the air, the stronger cultivators snapped their gazes toward it.
Li Jian was the one who came out first, followed by Xue Ying and Ash, then Aetherion, before the spatial crack immediately vanished the moment Aetherion stepped out of the spatial crack.
Ash looked around and was surprised when he found that there was a sea of people around him.
