The barrier's thickness and energy weakened at a visible rate. When it completely vanished, it would be time to leave one's name.
Xiao Chen and Ying Qiong each wore a cloak, hiding their identities. Then, they blended into the crowd and looked around.
Of the younger generation, only four people came. Xiao Chen recognized one of them. It looked like Di Wuque, Wang Can, and Kong Yuan's group had not arrived yet.
That person was Yan Shisan. He wore black and held the Heavenly Ice Sword in his hand. He stood at the side with a grave and stern expression, staring at the Sage Mark Monument.
Yan Shisan had been a half-Sage for many years. With the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring as an opportunity, he advanced to Martial Sage. This did not exceed Xiao Chen's expectations.
After Ying Qiong's introduction, Xiao Chen gained a better understanding of the other four. They were geniuses of the other races. The factions they belonged to were similar to the Sovereign Noble Clans of the human race.
Xiao Chen paid special attention to a man with bare arms. If he did not see wrong, this person walked the path of advancing to Martial Sage with the physical body alone.
Just by relying on his physical body, this person directly advanced to Martial Sage. After asking Ying Qiong, Xiao Chen learned that this person was called Kui Dou, a member of the Corpse Race.
Kui Dou's ancestor was the famous Iron Hand Sovereign of the Profound Domain. He was a legendary character who advanced to Sovereign Martial Emperor by relying on his physical body alone. However, he had already left the Corpse God Palace and led his clan to settle down in the Profound Domain.
As for the other three, they did not leave a deep impression on Xiao Chen. Of course, it was not that they were not powerful. It was just that they did not leave a particularly outstanding impression on Xiao Chen.
Without a doubt, anyone who could advance to Martial Sage before the age of thirty was not a minor character.
"The Peacock King's descendant, Kong Yuan, is here." Suddenly, Ying Qiong said, "The person with him seems to be the The Fox King's descendant, Yuan Xu."
Xiao Chen looked over and saw a handsome man in blue beside Kong Yuan. That man had the unique elegance of a Silver Moon Spirit Fox.
He was even more handsome than Xuan Yu, whom Xiao Chen had met before. However, he had the bloodline of a King. It diluted the feminine aura of the Silver Moon Spirit Fox race, making him look even more charming.
"It's said that he's even stronger than Kong Yuan. When the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring opened last time, he happened to be at the crucial moment of breaking through to the fifth tail, so he couldn't make it in time," Ying Qiong whispered to Xiao Chen.
Of the five major races, the Fiend Race had the most people but was indeed the weakest. This was because the Fiend Race only had two Sovereign Martial Emperors, the Peacock King and the Fox King.
When the descendants of the two Sovereign Martial Emperors arrived, the Fiend Race Martial Sages present all followed their lead and stood behind them.
The Fox King and the Peacock King were highly respected in the Demon Domain. Naturally, their descendants were widely respected as well. They were the focus of their own race and had high hopes for the two of them. They hoped that the two of them could fight for the demon race's honor and carve their names a little higher.
"Whoosh!"
A sinister wind blew overhead, and eight illusory spirits carrying a white palanquin descended. These were the top figures of the Ghost Race's younger generation.
The Ghost Race girl named Qing Cheng, who had once scared Xiao Chen, walked out. After she came out, three more men and women appeared in the palanquin.
She must have brought along the demonic geniuses of the Ghost Race's younger generation. The Ghost Race had fewer people, but four of them came. This proved that they were stronger than the Fiend Race.
The Inferior Grade Martial Sages of the Ghost Race all gathered behind these four and started discussing in soft voices.
It was fine if they did not come. However, the demonic geniuses of the younger generation did not stop once they arrived.
After a while, the youths of the Corpse Race and the human race arrived almost at the same time. Of the Corpse Race's side, Xiao Chen only recognized Wang Can, whom he had fought before. He did not recognize the others, only seeing them once in the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring.
On the human race's side, the ones who came were all familiar. As expected, the son of the Three Holy Masters had relied on the opportunity of the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring to break through the bottleneck that had plagued him for many years, advancing to Martial Sage in one go.
Aside from these, of the seven giants, the three who had soaked in the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring — Bai Wuxue, An Junxi, and Shui Lingling — also relied on this opportunity to advance to Martial Sage.
Xiao Chen heaved a sigh of relief. If not for the Breaking Sage Pill, which allowed him to advance to Martial Sage in advance, this group of people would have surpassed him.
In the end, Xiao Chen had only been a half-Sage for less than a year. Compared to An Junxi and the others, who had been stuck there for at least four or five years, his accumulations were lacking.
Xiao Chen could not rely on the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring to raise his comprehension ability and break through the bottleneck.
Even without the Breaking Sage Pill, he could advance to Martial Sage in another year, no weaker than these people. However, by then, it would be too late. The Sage Mark Monument would open only ten years later.
"Hu chi!"
A golden light flashed, and Di Wuque and the white-haired Divine Daughter arrived, leading the thirteen Inferior Grade Martial Sages of the Deity Race.
As the light flickered, it immediately attracted the gazes of all the cultivators on the surrounding peaks.
The remaining Deity Race cultivators all revealed fervent expressions. They quickly flew over and gathered behind Di Wuque and the others.
Xiao Chen found this strange. The Deity Race was ridiculously strong. Di Wuque and the white-haired Divine Daughter had already advanced to Martial Sage long ago. Now, they were peak Inferior Grade Martial Sages.
Aside from these two, the other thirteen people who soaked in the Heavenly Dew Divine Spring previously had all advanced to Martial Sage as well.
Furthermore, it was obvious that the number of people on their side was greater than that of the warriors from the other races.
"Strange. Didn't the humans say that a descendant of the Qing Emperor appeared? Why do I not see him? Could it be that he did not advance to Martial Sage? "
The golden barrier before the Sage Mark Monument weakened. The demonic geniuses of the various races had already arrived, but Xiao Chen was still nowhere to be seen. Several people started muttering to themselves in doubt.
Naturally, Xiao Chen, who was mixed in with the human group, could not hear the discussions on the surrounding peaks. He would have to send out his Spiritual Sense to hear them from such a distance.
Xiao Chen wore the cloak mainly to avoid trouble. He did not want the people of the other three Sovereign Noble Clans to know of his whereabouts.
As for what Ying Qiong was thinking, Xiao Chen did not know. He could not be bothered to think about it, either.
However, Xiao Chen took note of the discussions of the surrounding Martial Sages. After a while, he gained a much better understanding of this Sage Mark Monument.
As long as a cultivator got within one hundred meters of the Sage Mark Monument, they would feel a huge pressure. This pressure came from the mysterious energy within the monument.
This pressure was not formless. Not only would it affect the cultivator's mind, but it would also restrict the cultivator's ability to fly. The higher one flew, the greater the pressure.
The higher one's name was carved on the monument, the more people would look at the cultivator in a different light.
However, it did not mean that one would be able to carve their name on the monument just because they flew high. Carving words on the monument was not a simple matter.
In the past Sage Mark Monuments, there had been many ambitious people who wanted to carve their names higher, blindly trying to fly higher.
However, these people could not endure the pressure when they were carving their names. Before they could finish writing, they were knocked back, missing out on the opportunity to carve their names.
After carving one's name on the monument, it did not mean that it would not disappear forever. If a cultivator did not advance to Martial Emperor in the future, the name they left on the Sage Mark Monument would vanish after a thousand years.
If one climbed to the peak and became Emperor Wu, the name they carved would turn purple and vanish only after five thousand years.
Only when one became a Sovereign Martial Emperor would their name turn gold. Only then would it last forever, existing with the monument, never to disappear.
Under the hood, Xiao Chen looked at the monument, which he could not see clearly due to the barrier. Then, he revealed an interested expression.
The monument was only three kilometers tall. If not for the fact that it was erected at the waist of the mountain, its height of three kilometers would be as ordinary as it could be among the many famous mountains of the Kunlun Realm.
However, such a monument recorded all the famous experts of the Martial Epoch in the past one hundred thousand years.
Each monument represented a Kunlun Realm.
Just at this moment, the barrier vanished, and the three-kilometer-tall Sage Mark Monument revealed itself. From a few hundred meters away, Xiao Chen could clearly see the names on the monument.
The first thing that entered his eyes were the golden names at the top of the monument. These names shone brilliantly under the refraction of the sun.
Each name was a legend. When anyone saw the golden names of their race's cultivators, no matter who it was, they would feel yearning, reverence, longing, and pride.
At first glance, Xiao Chen was attracted by these golden names. However, when he looked again, he shifted his gaze to the bottom of the monument.
Compared to the golden names that everyone paid attention to, the names below did not seem to attract much attention.
However, the names were densely packed together, several hundred times more than the golden names. They were like the cornerstone at the bottom of a pyramid.
Xiao Chen slowly moved his gaze upwards. The further he looked, the less densely packed the names were. After a thousand meters, there would be at most ten names engraved on each row.
On the one-meter-wide stone tablet, the names were very sparse. One kilometer was also a dividing point. After one kilometer, one could vaguely see some purple names.
Two kilometers was another dividing line. When Xiao Chen looked further up, all the names were purple. Occasionally, he would even find a golden name.
Even among the purple names, this golden light was very eye-catching. The moment it appeared, people would immediately notice it, forgetting about their surroundings.
As Xiao Chen continued moving his gaze upwards, he fixed it on the three-kilometer mark. There were only two names standing side by side. One was the Thunder King and the other was the Qing Emperor.
There were still three hundred meters above Xiao Chen, the highest point of the entire monument. However, the one hundred meters above the Qing Emperor was empty.
There were no names at all. However, after this one hundred meters, there was a large number of golden and glistening names. The denseness of the rows was flabbergasting.
There were more than twenty names in each row, almost as dense as the row at the bottom.
If one understood the history of the Kunlun Realm's Martial Epoch, they would not find such a mysterious phenomenon strange.
One stone monument was the entire Kunlun Realm. This saying was not exaggerated. The densely packed names one hundred meters above the Qing Emperor were densely packed.
This represented the peak of the Ancient Era's Martial Epoch. During that era, Martial Emperors were as common as the clouds, Sages filled the streets, and Sovereign Martial Emperors appeared one after another.
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