"Your divine prowess is unrivaled, Alliance Leader! May your might shake the Central Plains for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations!"
Watching the sea of fire fill the sky, with so many Dou Zong powerhouses unable even to escape before they all perished here, the people of the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion were swept up in excitement and bowed to me in submission.
Yet I felt no joy. Instead, my heart sank into the depths.
Where had the Hall of Souls' other Dou Sheng gone?
They had so many Dou Sheng, yet they were actually letting me slaughter my way through the Central Plains without sending even one person out to stop me?
An ominous thought immediately surfaced in my mind.
"The Ancient Eight Clans..."
To gather all the Tou She Ancient God Jade, the Soul Clan had been eyeing the other Ancient Eight Clans all along.
And they had actually acted on it. Previously, the Ling Clan, Stone Clan, and Medicine Clan had all been wiped out by the Soul Clan! I simply had never been able to determine exactly when the Soul Clan had struck.
Now, several of the Hall of Souls' Dou Sheng had suddenly vanished. They might very well have been transferred away by the Soul Clan to deal with the Ancient Eight Clans!
The moment this thought emerged, it took root in my mind and kept growing. The more I considered it, the more likely it seemed.
"Alliance Leader, what should we do next?"
Tang Ying looked at me excitedly. He was still a youth, after all, and was particularly worked up. "The Yellow Springs Pavilion's Mountain Gate is nearby. Why don't we finish what we've started and wipe out their Mountain Gate in one stroke?!"
I came back to my senses and looked