A sect from the Central Region arrived first, and soon after, more and more sects arrived in the Eastern Region. All sects from the meeting, including all kinds of powerful sects from the Western, Southern, Northern, and Central regions, all came in massive force.
This gathering of people even outmatched the group of people who had come for the secret realm. This group had never gathered like this before to deal with anything, and everyone was surprised that all the sects actually came.
After all the sects arrived, the presence they emitted was crushing, and the sects in the Eastern Region could only hide and cower at the mere presence of this force. Though the Eastern Region had its own powerful force that could rival some of the forces present, the sheer quantity of powerful force was simply not something they could contend with. All the Eastern forces could only stay quiet, waiting for this group to finish their business and leave.
The Eastern forces were afraid that if they did something wrong, they would be wiped out by these forces. So, the Eastern forces closed their sects and forced their younger generation from acting out and being arrogant, as this is a life-and-death situation for their sects.
The sects who arrived then started discussing what to do now, as they had all arrived but had no clear course of action. So, the first thing that was decided was to split up and look for information.
Everyone present agreed to this decision, and the group then split up throughout the Eastern Region. With this many high-level cultivators present, searching throughout the Eastern Region would be easy.
As they flew off in different directions, one of the sects was heading to the Invincible Cloud Sect first, as it was in their line of search. A while later, this sect started searching the Invincible Cloud Sect.
Nobody in the Invincible Cloud Sect came out to greet them, which caused this group to get angry at being disrespected, so the leader of this group yelled at the sect in front of them, "Get out here and greet us, or don’t expect us not to flatten your sect."
This voice then echoed throughout the mountain, clearly audible to miles around. Waiting a while, nobody reacted to his command, and the leader of the group could no longer contain his anger. He was a dignified half-immortal; having to lower himself to visit the sect personally was beneath him. So, the leader of the group summoned his essence hand and slammed it down onto the Invincible Cloud Sect, expecting to kill these fools for not respecting his authority.
Unexpectedly, the essence hand, after getting close to the sect, disappeared as if it had never existed in the first place. This confused the person who had shot the essence hand, not believing this inconspicuous sect had the means to stop his attack.
This time, the man used his full power to create an essence hand and slammed it down even harder. The result, like before, made the essence hand disappear when it got close to the sect.
This time, the man became even more furious at being embarrassed by this sect. After all his authority, he couldn't even show off by destroying this small sect. This time, the man ordered everyone to attack the sect together. The group, following the man’s order, prepared to launch their own attack.
Suddenly, a man appeared in front of them looking calm. The man seemed to appear out of nowhere, and the group was suddenly surprised at his presence. This man had no energy coming out of him nor presence; if they weren’t looking directly at him, they would have thought the man didn’t even exist.
This man was Jiang Yun. As he was attacked twice by this group, he could no longer stay in the sect and continue watching. This time, he came to deal with this group of people trying to offend him.
With no emotion on his face, Jiang Yun said coldly, "Are you all ready to die?"
The group, not believing the man could possibly be stronger than all of them, launched their full-power attack in a rage.
Jiang Yun, not giving them any more time, finally launched his own attack, compressing the air around him and shooting it at the group at high velocity; the group was then torn apart into several pieces. Jiang Yun felt killing the enemy in the same way every time had gotten boring and decided to use different moves. The attack satisfied him, as the attack was brutal, allowing the group that attacked him to have their bodies sliced up so badly nobody could recognize them. This attack was also quite painful to the enemy, as rather than instantly dying, they felt every piece of their body being torn apart before dying.
After finishing his massacre of this group of people, Jiang Yun went back to learning about the art of alchemy.
Back at the location the sects had arrived, the sects were starting to come back one by one, regathering to exchange their findings. Most of the people present couldn't find anything in their search area and could only report the place they searched to be clear of suspects.
Others who came back had news about how the Dark Abyss Sect had questioned people. This news brought back intrigued everyone present. The people present then urged the people speaking about the news to continue.
The people talking about the Dark Abyss Sect brought to light that after asking around about suspicious people for a while, they finally found a clue. There was a newly risen sect called the Invincible Cloud Sect that had killed some local forces. After finding this out, the Dark Abyss Sect went to inquire more information by going directly there. Many people saw a bunch of dark-robed men heading towards that direction. To a lot of people's surprise, this group never came back after going to that sect.
Everyone present immediately realized maybe the Invincible Cloud Sect was the likely culprit of the robbery of the secret realm. Such a newly risen force with no foundation—how could they possibly be so strong? They must have a secret.
The sects present then decided to wait for everyone to come back before attacking the Invincible Cloud Sect. This was because if it truly was the Invincible Cloud Sect that took the treasure, that means they have some strong power behind them. It would be best if all the sects went together; that way, nobody would have to step forward as cannon fodder. With this many people present, nobody believed that even with the force behind the Invincible Cloud Sect, they could handle it. This would minimize casualties, meaning everyone present wouldn't need to take unnecessary risks for no reason and die.
After a long while, and many sects had regrouped with the rest of the sects present, one sect was found to be missing. The people present realized it was the group who went towards the Invincible Cloud Sect. The people present assumed that the sect was dead, as someone who could break into a secret realm is by no means weak.
With the missing sect most likely dead, everyone present decided to head towards the Invincible Cloud Sect without waiting any longer.
The group of powerful sects then all flew in the direction of the Invincible Cloud Sect. All the people below wondered who could have possibly offended so many powerhouses that such a large force was sent out to attack them. The people watching could only feel pity for the target of this group, as such power had never been seen before all together at once. The situation must be serious for this never-before-seen situation to happen.
Finally arriving at the Invincible Cloud Sect, the group waited for everyone to arrive. Soon, the group completely gathered together to confront the Invincible Cloud Sect.
The leader of the group of top powers of several regions came out; it was the head of the last conveyed meeting. The leader stepped forward and raised his face to yell in a commanding tone, "You people from the Invincible Cloud Sect, come out and explain the situation to us. We know you have the treasures from the secret realm. Now that all of us are here, don’t expect to escape; no matter what power is behind you, it cannot possibly match us present. Be obedient and hand over the treasures from the secret realm now, or suffer a fate much worse than death."
Getting no response after all the imposing shouts, the leader of the group suddenly felt embarrassed and angry. With so many people present and yet the sect below still didn’t show any respect and greet them, this made the leader of the group seem incompetent and weak.
Without saying another word, the leader of the group launched his strongest attack after taking out a beautiful sword with phoenix engravings on the hilt. This sword was something that was the peak of the mortal world—an immortal treasure that had fallen from the immortal realm. Though this sword was only a "Loose Immortal" weapon, it had a high status in the mortal realm.
With a swing using the phoenix sword, a gigantic blazing inferno came down on the Invincible Cloud Sect. Everyone present knew such an attack could even injure a Loose Immortal, so such a sect from the mortal realm, much less from the Eastern Region, definitely wouldn't be able to handle this attack.
To everyone’s surprise, nothing happened; the attack disappeared from their very eyes. The huge inferno just magically disappeared. In their shock, a man suddenly appeared in front of them.
Jiang Yun once again had to come out to deal with the attackers. He was very annoyed at constantly being bothered every little bit of time. He wanted to deal with the situation once and for all. It seems just killing a few just wasn’t enough to deter them to stop attacking. This time should be a larger show of force.
As everyone stared at the man who suddenly appeared, wondering who he is, Jiang Yun suddenly said, "So what if I took the treasures from the secret realm? What are you going to do about it if I don’t hand it over?"