Formal Alliance, War Begins! The Afterglow of the Heavenly Alliance! (Monthly Ticket Request)

The encounter with the envoy from the Sacred Dynasty's Yuan Ting Pavilion had merely been an unexpected interlude.

However, this formal contact with a Sacred Dynasty expert also gave Jiang Dali a clearer understanding of the Sacred Dynasty.

These were insights that the scattered fragments of information provided in the imperial records of Song and Ming could not make up for.

The Sacred Dynasty's four sects each had their own duties. The Lingyun Sect seemed to be responsible for apprehending the Sacred Dynasty's various wanted criminals.

As for what Yuan Ting Pavilion did, Jiang Dali had been too eager to test his strength by beating people up. He had driven the man away without even figuring it out.

However, the fact that Yuan Ting Pavilion had proactively sent someone to recruit him revealed one thing—once one broke through to the True Return Realm, one could receive invitations from the Sacred Dynasty's four sects. This also seemed to be the four sects' acknowledgment of the strong.

From that old man's words, it could also vaguely be inferred that even within the Sacred Dynasty's four sects, True Return Realm experts were exceedingly rare. Perhaps each sect had only around ten of them.

Among them, there might have been many experts recruited from the Vassal States in the past. Dugu Qiubai, who had suffered from having no rivals in the Vassal States, might have been one of them.

It was highly likely that Dugu Qiubai had long since joined Yuan Ting Pavilion. Otherwise, that old man would not have been so familiar with Dugu Qiubai's deeds.

Lastly, and most importantly, the Sacred Dynasty's four sects clearly possessed some method of learning immediately whenever someone in the Vassal States broke through to the True Return Realm, after which they promptly sent people to recruit