Had the Tianyuan Sacred Sect won?
No!
Neither the Tianyuan Sacred Sect nor the Tianhe Dao Sect had won.
One had suffered a crushing defeat; the other had suffered an even worse one.
The Tianhe Dao Sect had given up three continents, but hadn't the Tianyuan Sacred Sect lost Su Creek Continent and Danmei Continent too?
Otherwise, why had True Lord Qiyuan of the Qiankun Dao Sect chosen the Tianyuan Sacred Sect's Su Creek Continent for his seat instead of Tonglu Continent, Cloud Perch Continent, or Cloud Floss Continent?
Su Creek Continent still belonged to the Tianyuan Sacred Sect in name, but in truth, the Qiankun Dao Sect of the Jiuzhou World had probably claimed it long ago!
Thus, that battle had no winner. If anyone had won, it was probably the forces from other worlds that had squeezed into the Tianyuan World while the Tianhe Dao Sect and Tianyuan Sacred Sect were both gravely weakened.
The Qiankun Dao Sect of the Jiuzhou World and the Canglang Sacred Sect of the Canghai World, for instance.
By that measure, Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi's Penglai Dao Sect and Qinghua Dao Sect counted as winners too, in a sense.
Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi exchanged a glance. Thoughts raced through their minds, but neither let them show.
After all, if the Tianyuan Sacred Sect and Tianhe Dao Sect had not both been wounded, neither of them could have come to the Tianyuan World.
"What did Mingxian mean?"
Only after a long silence did Xuanyi ask.
Jiang Sheng repeated what he had heard that day on Emerald Mist Continent, word for word. Xuanyi fell silent again.
Elegant music flowed through the hall like sounds from heaven, while Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi quietly sipped their tea.
Xuanyi sighed, then finally spoke. "I truly don't know what