The ceremony lasted a full hour and a half. Though Yi Wentian was in the Golden Core Realm, he was still utterly exhausted.
Having the ceremony presided over by a Golden Core was already somewhat strained to begin with, let alone one so advanced in years.
As he dripped his blood essence onto the Dharma Altar and shouted, "The rite is complete," he barely managed to take three steps back and finish the final part of the ceremony.
The forced and hasty nature of this ceremony might not have been absolutely unprecedented in the Jieyi Realm, but it was still enough to go down in history.
Once the ceremony was complete, all that remained was to wait for the territory to send down a pillar of light and acknowledge the Spirit Vein's change of ownership. This would last half an hour.
Unfortunately, several minutes passed, and the territory showed not the slightest reaction.
All of a sudden, a cold snort rang out, and an enormous palm emerged above the Dharma Altar, stretching more than a thousand kilometers long.
The palm extended flat, then with a lift of the hand, it seized fiercely toward the sky, seeming slow but actually swift.
"Holy crap..." Among the onlookers, someone could not help muttering under their breath. "He really dares!"
Word had already spread that the Great Venerable had stated that if the territory did not acknowledge the Yi Family's possession of the Spirit Vein, he would step in to "correct" it.
Correcting the Territory Consciousness—this was truly not something True Immortals dared to imagine, much less say aloud.
The only ones capable of making such a brazen declaration were True Venerables.
There were many factors behind why so many True Immortals had come to observe the ceremony this time, but witnessing the bearing