While Aster and the girls were having a nice rest… some more than others, at another part of the forest, on the middle area to be more accurate the situation wasn't as enjoyable.
Besides the around eight thousand survivors from the original batch of participants, around three thousand cultivators on the Genesis Manifestation realm and a small number of other random cultivators in the Mortal Transcending or Sea of Knowledge entered on the second batch.
For a total of more than ten thousand cultivators, a force worthy of reckon, specially because the ones who entered aren't average cultivators, but the most outstanding elders in their respective realm from their respective forces.
Though the vast majority could only cross some minor realms, there was a core of people that could fight at the early-stage Void Manipulation level, not to mention the ones from the four bigger forces which attended this time, besides the Myriad Occupation sect of course.