Wealth was sought amid danger; the ancients truly had not deceived me.
Especially in this battle, that had been displayed to the fullest.
Lin Xuan had split his forces into two, taking an enormous risk from the start. With the slightest misstep, even if he would not have fallen into eternal ruin, he certainly would have suffered a crushing defeat.
Fortunately, this grand gamble had ended in his victory. This battle had seemed perilous, yet with Heaven lending him an arm, it had gone smoothly to the extreme.
At this point, the conflict between Cloud Hidden Sect and the Three Sects Alliance lowered its banners and stilled its drums, finally writing its final mark.
Yet the strangeness of the result left the other powers staring sidelong.
The originally weaker Cloud Hidden Sect had not only won a complete victory, but had also subdued the three great hostile sects in one stroke.
The once-overbearing Three Sects Alliance—Taixuan Sect, Spirit Ghost Sect, and Heavenly Crystal Valley—had all declined, becoming subordinate sects of Cloud Hidden Sect.
What did subordinate mean?
It meant following wherever its horse's head pointed.
To make a simple comparison, it was like an emperor and a household slave in the mortal world. The former, toward the latter—to put it rather bluntly—could decide life and death, grant and seize at will.
Cloud Hidden Sect was now exactly like that. With the attachment of the three great sects, its strength had soared by far more than merely double, and it had leapt to become one of the higher-ranked superpowers of Nailong Realm.
Of course, compared with those other truly famous great sects, Cloud Hidden Sect's foundation was inevitably somewhat lacking. After all, the time since its rise had been far too short.
However, as the saying went, where there was one