Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces, the Five-Colored Fairy, and the Seven-Orifice Dragon-Snake Gall

"Vertical and horizontal alliances?"

Lin Xuan pressed a hand to his forehead, a faintly pensive look appearing on his face. "Sister, are you talking about the Heavenly Ingenuity Sect?"

"No. You're mistaken."

Meng Ruyan shook her lovely head. "That old fellow Taiyin is sinister and cunning to the extreme. How could he be so easy to bait? If I come into conflict with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, nine times out of ten he'll watch the fire from across the river. Without absolute certainty, he definitely won't get involved on either side."

"Then which sect are you referring to, Sister?"

"Little Brother, when you came to my Horizon Sea Pavilion, did you pass by Quiet Moon Island on the way?" Meng Ruyan spoke with a trace of mystery, a sly glimmer faintly flashing through her beautiful eyes.

"Quiet Moon Island? Naturally, I passed by it," Lin Xuan answered honestly.

Leaving aside the little incidents that had happened there, just the so-called "matchmaking assembly" alone made Lin Xuan's thoughts drift endlessly...

Although Horizon Sea Pavilion had always held it in the past, this time they had deliberately moved it forward.

On the surface, this move was to win over those overseas sects and clans, tying them to Horizon Sea Pavilion's enormous war chariot.

But on closer thought, doing so was simply riddled with flaws.

Though the Outer Seas was a wild and uncivilized place, relatively cut off from news compared to Cloud Province, two of the Seven Great Sects had fallen out and reached the point of irreconcilable hatred. There was no way the overseas cultivators could be unaware of this.

Beauties were like jade, but to become enemies with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect just to marry a female disciple of Horizon Sea Pavilion? The cultivators of those sects and