When Jiang Bei saw this, his heart tightened. He strode forward at once and firmly supported Gu Tianhai's body with both hands before he could kneel, then hurriedly said, "Hall Master! You mustn't! As a disciple of the Sacred Hall, protecting the sect's foundation and safeguarding my fellow disciples is my duty to begin with! This is only what I should do!"
Hearing this, Gu Tianhai said with incomparable solemnity, "Jiang Bei! Listen to me... I make this bow willingly, and I make it as I should! If this old life of mine were lost, then so be it. My death would be no pity! But if, because of my negligence, Tianyang Domain were lost, if the Sacred Hall's last foothold in God's Arrival Land were lost... I-I truly could not atone even with ten thousand deaths! In the nine springs below, what face would I have to meet those ancestors who endured such hardship to build this foundation? It was you who turned the tide and preserved all of this! You did not save me. You saved the entire Tianyang Domain, saved the entire Sacred Hall!"
Jiang Bei quickly said, "Hall Master, you overpraise me! This disciple does not deserve it. Although we have destroyed these five great forces and killed Zuo Ce, that does not mean the crisis facing our Tianyang Domain is over. The Zuo Clan Ancestral Hall now occupies Shenyong Domain?"
Gu Tianhai nodded heavily and said, "You are right! Among the twenty domains of God's Arrival Land, the ones that truly hold sway are the lofty 'Upper Five Domains.' The Shenyong Domain controlled by the Zuo Clan Ancestral Hall is one of them, with a profound foundation and experts as numerous as clouds. In the past, they regarded Tianyang Domain as nothing and disdained taking