I tricked you into thinking you had the makings of an emperor, but you actually did it?

"The Holy Emperor has truly returned?!"

"What?! The Holy Emperor has strength comparable to the Holy King?!"

"He's going to have a decisive battle with Di Nan of the Tianchi Clan at the Heavenly Assembly?"

The news spread throughout the Hundred States, and many people found it hard to believe, even thinking that the name was wrong.

Shen Ming is indeed strong enough to be a Saint Realm expert in his current era. He will become a Saint King in a few hundred years and dominate for ten generations without any problem. That's a sure thing.

But how long has it been? He only went back to the Fifth Realm, not to the Immortal Realm for cultivation. How could there be such a big change?

Moreover, according to the cultivators present, Shen Ming did not seem to have shown his full potential when he killed Lin Wang and the two saints of the Tianchi Imperial Clan.

In fact, his strength is definitely above that of the Saint King. As for whether he can defeat the Saint King, we will have to wait and see at the Saint Cliff Heavenly Assembly.

This grand gathering, bringing together people from hundreds of states, has become the focus of the sixth edition.

Rumor has it that the Holy Cliff Heaven Society will unveil the mystery of the Golden Moon, and great fortune awaits everyone.

Therefore, the specific time and location have not yet been determined.

The ancient sects leading the effort are acting mysteriously, and have not revealed any details to the public.

Most people can only speculate and speculate, but for someone at Shen Ming's level, finding out is not difficult.

"The Holy Cliff Heavenly Society is an organization from the Upper Realm Immortal Domain. It will select some people to go to the moon to cultivate."

Li Miaozhen rushed to Shenghuang Mountain immediately to inform Shen Ming of the news.

The moon is not only a forbidden zone for life, but also home to many lineages and relics, and even people from various major forces in the Immortal Realm are mining there.

It's equivalent to ascending to the Immortal Realm in disguise, obtaining the Four Symbols Insights from the top forces in the Immortal Realm, as well as the Divine Fire Seed from the Moon Forbidden Zone.

It's no wonder that all the geniuses of the Sixth Realm have emerged.

"No wonder."

Shen Ming was quite tempted. Although he had enough Emperor Fire for three people, he had not yet begun his Four Symbols cultivation.

Although his combat power is comparable to that of a Saint King, he cannot remain at this level forever. He still needs to enhance his Four Symbols Dao Heart and break through to the Divine Realm.

Otherwise, the difficulty of competing with other Saint Kings who have reached the God Realm is quite different.

"Are you going to join?"

Li Miaozhen asked the question that everyone was concerned about.

Every generation has its own opportunities and struggles, and many people believe that the ancient treasure realm belongs to Shen Ming.

Now, we are heading to the moon, which is the opportunity that the past ten generations of saintly kings of the Sixth Realm have been waiting for.

Shen Ming's decision to compete for it now would be somewhat greedy.

"Of course we should fight for it."

Shen Ming didn't care about all that nonsense; if he had the ability, he would fight for it.

It's a very simple principle: if Heaven didn't allow it, it wouldn't be possible for him to have such power.

It focuses on idealism!

Organizing a grand event in the Immortal Realm is no simple matter; it requires thorough preparation, hence the timing is uncertain.

During this time, Shen Ming and Li Miaozhen finally had some free time and lived a life that was neither as happy as a pair of lovebirds nor as carefree as an immortal.

Like the Holy Emperor's Palace, the Great Luo Palace is located on a mountain. The spiritual veins can enter the Great Luo Dao Field built by Shen Ming, which is enough for two contemporary Saint Realm experts to cultivate here.

However, Shen Ming immediately had something to worry about.

Every day, people linger outside Mount Shenghuang, waiting for the grand event to begin; they are just people who have nothing better to do.

Top-tier sects often have their grand formations shrouded in mist to prevent outsiders from peeking in.

But now the Ancient Holy Emperor Academy is not what it used to be; a single dragon sparrow can break through the Holy Pillar Formation.

Some people who don't understand etiquette even used their divine sense to scan Mount Shenghuang.

Shen Ming wanted to teach them a lesson, but when those people saw him appear, they became extremely excited and immediately showed fanaticism.

He took his offensive act as an expression of enthusiasm for Shen Ming.

Among them, women make up the majority.

The most outrageous thing is that someone broke into Shenghuang Mountain, expressing their desire to become Shen Ming's follower.

Every saint-king has followers, and Shen Ming naturally needs them too.

When the Sage King ascends to the Immortal Realm, he may take them with him.

Shen Ming was both amused and exasperated, only then realizing that he had so many followers.

Huo Shuo was glad that he had spoken up in time and become Shen Ming's first follower.

"We must restore the Holy Emperor's Academy's formation."

Shen Ming realized this and, now with his abundant wealth, was able to hire top-tier array masters to invest massive resources in rebuilding the grand array.

However, he immediately encountered a problem.

He could buy all the materials and resources needed for the grand formation, but he couldn't hire a formation master.

“The grand formations of the ancient religious holy sites have been perfected over countless years. For example, the Patching Heaven Sect has a special second-tier family of formation masters, each of whom is a renowned expert and master in formations, but they are not allowed to build grand formations for outsiders,” Li Miaozhen said.

Array masters and alchemists are highly sought after and are monopolized by the ancient religious holy lands.

The original arrays of the Ancient Holy Emperor Academy were all very powerful, created by the array master Ren Qianqiu.

Unfortunately, the one who led the arson attack on the Holy Emperor's Academy was Ren Qianqiu, and now no one knows where he has gone.

Is this what true depth and heritage are?

Shen Ming frowned. When wealth accumulates to a certain level, you will encounter a bottleneck and find that there are many things that money cannot buy.

According to those people from the Sixth Realm, Shen Ming's foundation is still too weak.

"Should we have the Divine Flame Dynasty send someone over?" Jian Li suggested.

This is indeed a solution, but Shen Ming doesn't want to make it his first choice.

He returned alone, without having the imperial forces send any divine realm experts to accompany him, because he didn't want to get too involved.

Before he realized his overwhelming advantage in the matter of reform, he had to be cautious in dealing with the imperial forces, even if he was the Holy Emperor.

"If all else fails, do it yourself."

A glint of light flashed in Shen Ming's eyes.

Besides his senior brother Su Lianyun, senior sister Situ Qing, and senior brother Ma Quandao, he had four other senior brothers at Eternal Academy.

Over the long years, with no hope of breaking through to the King Realm, they devoted themselves to studying formations, alchemy, medicine, and so on.

In the Eternal Palace, his senior brothers passed all of this on to him.

Shen Ming has limited time and is too busy to study it in depth.

Now, he rummaged through the colorful cloud bag and found the jade slip containing the formation techniques that his senior brother had given him.

“Your senior brother has never left the outer battlefields, never been to the Middle Three Realms, and has never experienced the complete world and the flawless Great Dao. The formation he developed based on this is unreliable,” Jian Li said.

"Senior Brother Su has never been to the Middle Three Realms, yet the Heavenly Tribulation Sword still displayed its divine power." Shen Ming indicated that it was not a problem.

Jian Li wanted to say that it was because you were an anomaly, and that formations and swordsmanship were different.

Swordsmanship originates from oneself, while formations are in harmony with the laws of heaven and earth.

However, as the words were about to come out, Jian Li thought of all the miracles that Shen Ming had brought.

So Jianli didn't say anything.

I thought that it wouldn't matter if I failed at this kind of thing; I could just start over.

"It's time for him to taste the bitterness of defeat." In the following time, Jian Li watched as Shen Ming focused his attention on the great formation.

A book on formations originating from a battlefield outside the region, and a newcomer who has only just begun to understand it, are destined to fail.

In fact, a great formation was indeed gradually built up in Shen Ming's hands.

"Is this okay?"

"This isn't right!"

"Can this be right?!"

As the old man who always accompanied him, Jian Li was also quite skilled in formations, which made his psychological journey particularly interesting.