Burn Them to Ashes and Scatter Their Bones

Beast Spirit Immortal City, Council Hall.

True Monarch Divine Crow sat at the head of the hall, his eyes closed in silence.

"Three years have passed. To this day, no one from the various regions has escorted spirit stones and Natural Treasures to the Immortal City as tribute. After deducting what the ancestor requires for daily cultivation, we have almost nothing left. Our cultivation has fallen into stagnation..."

Hei Chengwu and more than a dozen Direct Lineage Golden Core cultivators spoke in low voices.

Around them, dozens of direct-lineage Foundation Establishment Cultivators sat upright and solemn. From time to time, they looked around the clan's council hall with excitement and curiosity. It was clearly their first time in such a grave and majestic place, where the Black Clan's power was decided. In the past, they could only wait for the outcome.

Now, however, they had the chance to take part in its decisions.

"With the spirit stones and Natural Treasures in the Immortal City's reserves, we can still hold out for some years. If the number of Golden Core cultivators does not increase in the future, it should barely be enough..."

"No. If we simply sit and eat until the mountain is empty, trapped in one corner of the grassland, we will only invite disaster!"

"What disaster? With the ancestor here, we are as steady as Mount Tai."

The Golden Core cultivators discussed matters heatedly, pulling this way and that, yet none of them was willing to truly pierce the paper window.

"Uncles, why must you all be so timid and deceive yourselves?"

After a long while, a somewhat younger direct-lineage Golden Core cultivator rose angrily to his feet. "Summoning the External Golden Core cultivators from every region to the Immortal City, placing restrictions upon them, and temporarily acknowledging their