Death Was Inevitable

After hearing the news, some rogue cultivators hundreds of miles away began making their way toward the Divine Flame Sect. Their numbers were not yet large, but a trend had already taken shape.

The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's response was equally straightforward. They immediately raised the cultivation arts available to their sect's rogue cultivators to another level.

The Spirit Abandonment Art opened eighty-five acupoints, two more than the Divine Seal Art. In essence, it belonged to the same tier of cultivation art.

The Spirit Abandonment Art had originally been one of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's inheritances. Naturally, it was a relatively weaker inheritance, but after the Divine Flame Sect made such a move, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had no choice but to make this inherited cultivation art available to rogue cultivators.

Furthermore, to attract rogue cultivators, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect simply raised the daily benefits of rogue cultivators who came to join them as Guest Officials.

In any case, they had recently been refining their stores of spirit herbs into various spiritual pills. Giving the rogue cultivators a little extra daily support was still within what they could bear.

After all, if they failed to placate this batch of Guest Officials, who knew what kind of trouble might break out again.

What the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect was fighting for now was these twenty years. If they could stabilize their own backyard and produce another Joint Aperture Realm powerhouse, then every enemy would become a paper tiger.

But if no Joint Aperture Realm powerhouse emerged within these twenty years, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect would likely become history.

The feud between the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and the Divine Flame Sect had already reached the point of life and death. So long as either side found the