"Fellow cultivators, your coming together honors the Song Clan from top to bottom. Please, come in."
Seeing the lavish lineup Myriad Manifestations Palace had brought in a group, even Song Changsheng, who had personally sent out the invitations, was somewhat surprised.
During this period, there had been countless matters to handle and loose ends in every direction. Myriad Manifestations Palace had far more to deal with than the Song Clan, and everyone he knew was a Pillar of the Clan within Myriad Manifestations Palace. The burdens they carried had to be extremely heavy.
It was precisely because he had considered this that he had asked True Lord Jianxin to pass on the invitations for him. If he had delivered them personally, the meaning would ultimately have been different, and he might have delayed their duties.
Yet Jian Xin, Ling Xiao, Gu Xueying, Baili Yuntu, Liu Yunxuan, Caidie, and even Master Guhong had all come without a single exception, far exceeding his expectations.
Ling Xiao smiled and gave a cupped-fist salute. "Grandmaster Dragon Elephant had originally intended to make a trip himself after receiving your invitation.
"But the Palace Master said that if a True Lord appeared personally, first, he feared it would steal the limelight from you, the future Southwest Alliance Leader; second, Myriad Manifestations Palace had always followed the ancestral rule of never intervening in disputes between local forces unless it was a last resort. So only we came.
"However, Grandmaster Dragon Elephant had a message for us to deliver to you."
"Please tell me," Song Changsheng said hurriedly, adopting an attentive posture.
"The Grandmaster asked me to tell you: act boldly and without hesitation. Myriad Manifestations Palace stands behind everything."
A warmth rose in Song Changsheng's heart. The weight of those words was simply too great; to the