When Jiandan stood on the mountainside surveying that lake, the cultivators from the Ends of the Earth organization, guided by their maps, had all headed straight for this central location after passing the trials, driven by the desire for the Immortal Artifact.
Truth be told, Jiandan had played a clever trick on the Ends of the Earth organization. By leaking the blueprints of the Palace in the Clouds secret realm, she stripped them of any absolute advantage. Furthermore, because the opening of the secret realm had been such a grand spectacle, nearly every prominent sect and family on the Lingyun Continent had arrived.
Combined with the restrictions on cultivation level and bone age for entering the secret realm, this had filtered out a portion of the elite fighters that Ends of the Earth had carefully selected. Moreover, the three grand moguls of the organization had been barred from entering due to the bone age limit, and were now waiting outside the secret realm with dark, gloomy faces.
Chapter 961