Then Let's Fight

Two worlds faced each other from afar.

This sweeping landscape painting had appeared because the Sage of Ritual had personally opened the greatest Mirror Flower Water Moon in ten thousand years.

Now the Vast Heaven and Earth and the Savage World were linked by the two surviving gates at the Inverted Mountain ruins and four Guixu entrances in the seas.

The Savage World's hundred-odd Demon Race Cultivators could not, of course, come to the Temple of Literature in the Central Divine Continent. They had gathered at Tuoyue Mountain, where a Mountain Peak Council was also taking place.

Opening the scroll so the two sides could confer across the distance—"sit down and talk properly, then consider other options if talks fail"—had been the proposal of the Sage of Ritual and Tuoyue Mountain.

Only the Sage of Ritual could have made it happen.

It was not simply a matter of his high cultivation. No other Fourteen Realms great cultivator in the world could have done it, save this scholar who held the second-highest position in the Temple of Literature.

If Azure Sky World were to hold a council, for instance, and Dao the Second, Yu Dou, sat in White Jade Capital and invited Peak Cultivators from across the world, the Sword Immortal Lineage of Sun Huaizhong's Great Xuan Du Temple and a group of leading Daoist sects including Wu Shuang Jiang's Sui Chu Palace would certainly ignore him. Not because they truly disregarded White Jade Capital, but because they did not believe True Invincible had the right to command the world. His junior brother Lu Chen could do it even less. Besides, the White Jade Capital Third Sect Master was born with a particular headache for such "mundane affairs." Everyone knew him as a lazybones who would "sit rather than stand, and