The central region had turned completely silent after the king of the beasts had let out that screech earlier.
In the dark night, the only sound that could be heard in the central mountain amidst the eerie silence, was Shun Long's footsteps as he slowly climbed up. His aura was completely concealed by the 'Monarch's hourglass' as he walked towards the heart of the mountain.
The closer he approached towards the mountain's center, the thicker qi in the air around him was becoming.
Shun Long even felt that if he sat down cross-legged to cultivate here, he could probably breakthrough from the middle of rank 8 all the way to the early rank 9 of qi condensation in less than a day.