A Rivalry of Jealousy, Heaven-Brow Enters the Fray

Plotting against Heaven-Brow Snow Lady meant betraying the care she had received from her as a mentor.

Yet for the sect's survival, it was something she had no choice but to do.

Once Ghost Shadow Palace successfully established itself in the Southern Region and its strength continued to grow, given that sect's hatred toward Great Snow Mountain, she, a Spirit Transformation Venerable, might be able to flee—but how could those old friends, fellow sect members, and disciples of Great Snow Mountain escape?

Burying their heads in the sand would accomplish nothing.

Most of them would likely become cultivation resources for Ghost Shadow Palace cultivators.

She... had no choice.

If the day came when the entire sect stood at the brink of life and death, not only could Heaven-Brow Snow Lady be sacrificed—even she herself would be prepared to make that sacrifice.

With the shared "will" of Great Snow Mountain and Spirit Immortal Path,

Wei Tu and Lin Xuan'er, the chosen candidates for the marriage alliance, began to be deliberately arranged by Golden Silkworm Snow Lady to meet privately and cultivate their feelings.

It was worth mentioning that

there were also a few minor twists along the way.

Flame Emperor Sect, one of the three sects in the alliance, had somehow learned that Spirit Immortal Path intended to form a marriage alliance with Great Snow Mountain. Afraid of being left out, it immediately dispatched one of its younger Nascent Soul cultivators to Great Snow Mountain to express its own intention of forming a marriage alliance.

However, as Spirit Immortal Path's highest-ranking ally in the Central Region, although Flame Emperor Sect did wish to compete with Spirit Immortal Path in this matter, it maintained fair competition and did not directly sabotage the marriage alliance between Wei Tu and Lin Xuan'er.

It