Before they knew it, more than two months had passed since the Supreme Profound Holy Land had reopened its sect gate.


    The few rumors about the foreign realms circting within the Giant Marsh had not garnered much attention since they were quickly quelled.


    The Holy Land had sent a Pseudo-Immortal to investigate and found nothing amiss, ultimately dismissing the news as mere rumors.


    It had been tens of thousands of years since a foreign realm passagest appeared, and the cultivators of the Cangyun Realm now generally regarded it as an ancient legend.


    Besides, even if a foreign realm passage were to appear, there was no need to fret since the Holy Lands and the Immortal Alliance were there to handle matters overhead.


    Until the knife was at their throats, most people remained unaware of the danger.


    The activities of the Supreme Profound Holy Land had be the most attention-grabbing news in the Southern Regiontely.


    The four Great Sacred Lands jointly offering a bounty to assassinate the chief disciple of the Supreme Profound Authentic Transmission certainly caused a huge uproar in the Southern Region.


    This was tantamount to dering war, but with the Five Saints'' Conference beforehand, many astute individuals had already anticipated such developments.


    Facing the bounty of the four Great Sacred Lands, the reaction of the Supreme Profound Holy Land was equally direct.


    By investing a vast amount of resources and recruiting nearly a thousand Soul Condensation Realm monks as guest elders, the Supreme Profound began searching for Chu Zheng''s whereabouts while also issuing a hefty bounty on the true disciples of the other four Great Sacred Lands.


    The head of a Chief Disciple in the Entry Path Realm could be exchanged for a high-quality Divine Weapon and a Fourth Order Spirit Pill.


    The head of a Chief Disciple in the Soul Condensation Realm could even be exchanged for a top-quality Magical Treasure.


    A top-quality Magical Treasure, a weapon used by cultivators in the Divine Transformation Realm, was no more than that. One step further, and it was a Tongxuan Spiritual Treasure.


    The best alchemists and artifact refiners in the Southern Region were all in the Supreme Profound Holy Land, and with the dwindling poption of the Supreme Profound, there simply weren''t enough people to make use of these resources.


    Having closed its sect gates for ten thousand years, the one thing the Supreme Profound Holy Land did notck was a variety of spirit pills and magical treasures. Rare spirit pills and magical treasures from the outside world piled up like mountains in the Supreme Profound Treasure Vault, which now undoubtedly came in very handy.


    Compared to spirit stones, the magical treasures and spirit pills offered by the Supreme Profound Holy Land were clearly more enticing, especially since the true disciples of the four Great Sacred Lands were much easier to locate than Chu Zheng.


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    From the moment the Supreme Profound''s bounty was issued, the changes in the Hidden Dragon List became extremely dramatic; aside from the prodigies ranked within the top hundred, true disciples in the Entry Path and even Soul Condensation Realms began to die frequently.


    The strength of loose cultivators, one-on-one, was definitely not a match for these true disciples of the sacrednds, but, like a fierce tiger struggling against a pack of wolves, these loose cultivators used every cunning and ruthless tactic at their disposal.


    Most of these fallen prodigies died from assassination.


    Originally, some sects were still wary of the majesty of the sacrednds and dared not act.


    But as many died and no powerful figures from the Great Sacred Lands stepped forward, the courage of these powers gradually increased.


    Apart from loose cultivators, monks from various sized sects also began to make covert moves.


    This chaotic situation onlysted for less than half a month before yet another change urred.


    All the Soul Condensation Realm monks from the Four Great Sacred Lands who were out and about all went into hiding, switched identities, and began operating under the banner of the Supreme Profound Holy Land.


    With so many monks mingling in one ce, whether real or fake, it was difficult to discern.


    Their aim could not be more clear: apart from blurring the lines between friend and foe, they also aimed to lure Chu Zheng into revealing himself, killing two birds with one stone.


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    In the eastern part of the Giant Marsh, hundreds of thousands of miles away, therey a special region spanning tens of thousands of miles, known as the ''Immortal Emerald Continent,'' located at the junction of several Immortal Sects.


    In ancient times, a piece of Immortal Emerald was unearthed here and was acquired by a True Immortal from the Heavenly Throne Holy Land, who refined it into an Immortal Treasure.


    During that era, the Immortal Emerald Continent once attracted the exploration of several sects and even cultivators from the Holy Lands.


    But apart from that Immortal Emerald, no other Wonderous Treasures were found, and as time passed, the region gradually quieted down, evolving into a chaotic territory inhabited by small sects and loose cultivators.


    Emerald Light City is the most prosperous area in the Immortal Emerald Continent, sprawling nearly a hundred miles, and is mostly inhabited by cultivators.


    As there are many loose cultivators, the connections in this area are exceedinglyplex.


    Loose cultivators usually need to venture out to gather resources themselves and are, therefore, broadly informed, making this ce a hub of information.


    Recently in Emerald Light City, a piece of news spread: a Grandmaster of Alchemy had arrived in the Immortal Emerald Continent, with unfathomable mastery over the Alchemy Dao.


    No matter the quality of the Waste Elixirs brought to him, he could determine the cause of the elixir''s failure at a nce and provide guidance.


    In less than a month, dozens of alchemists had received his advice, significantly advancing their alchemical skills.


    The talent requirements for an alchemist are high, and cultivators possessing such talent are often recruited by sects, making alchemists that operate independently extremely rare.


    However, precisely because of their rarity, news among alchemists spreads incredibly fast.


    The news of a Grandmaster of Alchemy appearing in Emerald Light City is now discreetly circting among various major sects.


    In the realm of alchemy, being referred to as a Grandmaster implies that one has the ability to concoct at least Semi-Immortal Pills, and a master''s expertise goes above and beyond this.


    Upon hearing this news, alchemy masters within the various Immortal Sects cherished the desire to visit him.


    However, with the outside world in disarray and travel deemed extremely perilous, such visits must temporarily be put on hold while sending their Soul Condensation Realm monks to investigate the situation in Emerald Light City first.


    For a time, Emerald Light City became busier, with the figures of Great Cultivators often seening in and out of the city''s south side.


    In front of a mansion in the southern city, the scene was bustling with activity.


    A number of Soul Condensation Realm Great Cultivators stood guard outside, their Divine Sense sweeping around ardently, eyes vignt.