North Heaven Pass could not be lost!
This was Lingfeng True Lord's only thought at that moment.
As a Five Calamities True Lord of the Qiankun Dao Sect, Lingfeng True Lord knew the sect's arrangements in Yanzhou better than anyone. Although Yanzhou had now become a battlefield in the Qiankun Dao Sect's strategic plans, before this, it had always been an immensely important territory of the Qiankun Dao Sect. After all, this was one of the nine great provinces of the Jiuzhou World. Occupying Yanzhou meant occupying one-ninth of the Jiuzhou World's fate.
Moreover, in the millennia-long arrangements of the Qiankun Dao Sect, Kongdong Dao Sect, and Splendid Cloud Dao Sect, Vermilion Province and Yang Province of the Jiuzhou World had deliberately been abandoned to allow the myriad races to flourish. Thus, human civilization did not exist in Vermilion Province or Yang Province; they were domains of demons and devils.
In this way, not only was the yin-yang balance of the Jiuzhou World preserved and all things kept in order, but the fate of Vermilion Province and Yang Province was also separated and flowed into the other provinces.
In the present Jiuzhou World, Vermilion Province and Yang Province combined did not even account for a tenth of its fate. There was no harm in yielding them to Eastern Heaven Daoism.
But Yanzhou was different!
Yanzhou was land painstakingly cultivated by the Qiankun Dao Sect. It also held a tenth of the entire Jiuzhou World's fate, a place where humanity flourished and dragon aura gathered. It absolutely could not be abandoned so easily!
It could even be said that even if nearly three hundred Dao Palaces across Yanzhou's eastern, western, southern, and northern regions were lost, the four Heaven Passes could not be lost.
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