Eighth Heaven, Immortal Alliance!

This was clearly a Purple-Gold Divine Dragon.

Its entire body was covered in dazzling golden scales, its form intermittently visible within the clouds, subtly revealing its sharp five claws.

This was precisely what was meant by a divine dragon showing its head but not its tail.

Zhong Qing truly had his eyes opened today.

Although he himself had a Qilin Xiao Hei,

apart from that, in the First Heaven and Second Heaven, one couldn't find truly pure-blooded Dragon and Phoenix Kirin.

But today, he had seen them all at once.

After all, the Second Heaven was primarily human territory, and for the First Heaven, divine beast races were too powerful.

Only some races with the bloodlines of the three races were already top-tier existences, such as Phoenix Aotian's Three-Eyed Phoenix Hound Clan, which prided itself on possessing the Phoenix Clan bloodline.

According to Yu Weichen, pure-blooded Dragon and Phoenix Kirin, once they reached adulthood, even if they did nothing, possessed the strength to suppress a Three Tribulation Great Emperor.

They could easily cultivate to a Pseudo-Immortal of the Sixth Stage or higher, and the probability of achieving a True Immortal was much greater than for humans.

If not for the scarcity of pure-blooded divine beasts, the masters of this world should have been them, not humans.

That Purple-Gold Divine Dragon let out an earth-shattering dragon roar.

"Stop! This is Dragon Roaming Heaven. State your identities, newcomers."

Facing this Purple-Gold Divine Dragon, Yu Weichen's attitude was much more courteous than when he had encountered Lin Chi and Huang Yu earlier.

He cupped his hands and said, "Fellow Daoist Ao Yan, it is I, Yu Weichen of the Feather Transformation Sect."

"I recently descended to the lower realm and have now returned."

The Purple-Gold Divine Dragon, known as Ao Yan, spoke, "Yu Weichen, I naturally know it's you. I'm referring to the person beside you. If their identity is unclear, they are not permitted to pass!"

Yu Weichen, as before, explained that he intended to bring Zhong Qing into the Immortal Alliance.

Ao Yan looked at Zhong Qing, who only felt a divine sense sweep over him, and immediately frowned.

He had been in the cultivation world for a considerable time and knew that among cultivators, if they were unfamiliar with each other, it was extremely rude to use divine sense to scan someone upon meeting them.

If it happened between two cultivators of similar cultivation in the lower realm, it could easily lead to a conflict.

Only if one party's cultivation was significantly stronger than the other, or if an outsider trespassed into another force's territory, would they be treated in such a manner.

He could tell that, as a divine beast of the True Immortal level, this Dragon Clan's Ao Yan, though not as hot-tempered as Lin Chi, was much more arrogant and forceful, even genuinely treating the Seventh Heaven as his private territory.

Zhong Qing also disliked the feeling of being scanned by divine sense. If Yu Weichen hadn't been beside him, he probably would have slapped him.

After scanning him, Ao Yan coldly said, "A New True Immortal? Hmph, fine, pass through."

As soon as its words fell, its dragon head retracted into the clouds and disappeared.

Yu Weichen also sighed softly and said to Little Friend Zhong, "Don't mind it. That's just how the Dragon Clan is."

"Who can blame them when the Dragon Clan is one of the two strongest races in the current Immortal Alliance."

"The Dragon Clan's Immortal Lord Fuhai is said to be the strongest among the Seven Great Immortal Lords."

Zhong Qing felt a bit strange upon hearing this: "The two strongest races? Is the other race human? If so, our human race isn't afraid of them, so why are they so brazen?"

Yu Weichen showed a bitter smile and shook his head: "The other race is not human..."

Zhong Qing was startled: "Not human? Then is it perhaps the Phoenix Clan or the Kirin Clan? Didn't Brother Yu mention before that the human race was the strongest, and even three of the eight supreme immortal artifacts came from the human race?"

Yu Weichen sighed: "It's neither the Phoenix Clan nor the Kirin Clan. As for what Little Friend Zhong said, that was before the Immortal Alliance was established."

"And now, in the Immortal Alliance era, the strongest is no longer the human race... No, that's not quite accurate either. You'll soon find out."

This left Zhong Qing somewhat confused.

What did he mean by 'not human, but saying so isn't quite accurate'?

This was already the Seventh Heaven, and further up was the Eighth Heaven where the Immortal Alliance was located. What other powerful race could be above the Phoenix Clan and Kirin?

Harboring such doubts, Zhong Qing and Yu Weichen continued upwards, passing through the heavenly barrier of the Seventh Heaven.

They finally reached their destination, the Eighth Heaven.

Through layers of clouds and mist, one could already see, at the edge of their vision, continents enveloped in immortal light.

This entire world was situated above a sea of clouds, exquisitely beautiful, almost exactly like the celestial palace of the immortal realm Zhong Qing had imagined before.

This upper realm, in terms of area, was not very large, probably less than one-fifth of the Second Heaven.

Of course, even so, it could still be called vast and boundless.

But the concentration of spiritual energy was far more than five times that of the Second Heaven.

The solidity of space and the power of its rules were also far beyond what the lower realms could compare to.

Living here, as long as one's cultivation talent wasn't too poor, one could probably cultivate above Myriad Laws with their eyes closed.

It was conceivable that, besides the True Immortals of the Immortal Alliance, the number of powerful individuals here was certainly far beyond what the lower realms could compare to.

Moreover, upon arriving here, Zhong Qing finally sensed the aura of the human race again.

However, some of it seemed different from the human aura he was familiar with.

"Welcome to the Eighth Heaven."

Yu Weichen chuckled, "This is the true central point of all races in our Nine Heavens."

He did not take Little Friend Zhong to those continents, but continued upwards, flying above the floating continents, to another layer of clouds.

After passing through the clouds, they clearly saw, amidst the boundless starry river and white clouds, layers upon layers of exquisitely beautiful pavilions and palaces, intermittently visible among the stars.

The starry river spanned endless time and space, converging and flowing, and as it encircled these layers of palaces, it swirled up directly in front, permeated with golden light and mist, forming a Star Gate.

"This is the Immortal Alliance, Little Friend Zhong. Come with me."

Yu Weichen guided Zhong Qing, releasing a wisp of his aura. The Star Gate, which had originally seemed far off in the sky, appeared before them in the blink of an eye. There were countless layers of spatial divine abilities and techniques intertwined within, invisibly guarding the entire Immortal Alliance grounds.

Zhong Qing now saw countless guards wearing silver armor and exuding powerful auras, both inside and outside the Star Gate.

The cultivation of every single guard was no less than a Three-Revolution Pseudo-Immortal.

In the Second Heaven, a Three-Revolution Pseudo-Immortal could already become a sect master.

Here, they were merely guards.

But compared to the entire Immortal Alliance, where True Immortals gathered from all Nine Heavens, this was nothing out of the ordinary.

What concerned Zhong Qing more than the cultivation of these guards was this:

The aura emanating from their bodies was precisely the kind he had sensed before—similar to the human race, yet also somewhat different.

Zhong Qing noticed, whether it was a symbol of the Immortal Alliance guards or something else,

all the guards had a distinct silver pattern on their foreheads.

And behind these guards, in front of a star palace directly facing the Star Gate, a figure sat cross-legged with eyes closed.

As the two arrived, he slowly opened them.