The Clam and the Crane at War

Inside a cave on Taiyan Mountain, Jian Jinsheng sat cross-legged atop a huge boulder, his right hand gently stroking the longsword across his knees, a faint smile on his face.

The Divine Flame Sect disciples around him stood quietly below, their eyes full of reverence as they looked at Jian Jinsheng. The history of the Divine Flame Sect would be completely rewritten by Jian Jinsheng.

In everyone's hearts, a figure like him carried far more weight than the founding Patriarch of the Divine Flame Sect had in those days.

Not far from Jian Jinsheng, a man dressed like a scholar held a book in his hands and reported the Divine Flame Sect's losses and gains from this operation.

The greatest gain had naturally been the killing of Xin Zhiqing, a Joint Aperture Realm expert of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect. Beyond that, they had also left several Aperture Refining Realm experts of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect behind on Taiyan Mountain.

After Jian Jinsheng killed Xin Zhiqing that day, he had set his sights on the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's Aperture Refining Realm martial artists.

The Aperture Refining Realm experts from other sects could leave, but Jian Jinsheng had not spared a single martial artist from the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect. From this alone, one could see Jian Jinsheng's attitude toward the various sects going forward.

With the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, it would definitely be a fight to the death. As for the other sects, he would likely focus on winning them over. If he gained their support, the Divine Flame Sect's influence would expand even further.

It was precisely for this reason that Jian Jinsheng had not attacked the Aperture Refining Realm experts of the other sects.

If those sects still chose to side with the Immortal Cloud