Tianbao Giant City, Wangtian Tower.
This nine-story tower, with its soaring eaves and upturned corners, was the foremost of Tianbao Giant City's ten famous towers, and also the nearest bustling place to the Tianbao Supreme Sect's mountain gate.
On ordinary days, it was where the various powers within the giant city gathered and news circulated. Today, it was packed to the brim, with even the corridors and passageways crammed with people.
Above and below, the tower roared with voices, yet beneath them all ran a taut, anxious tension.
Without exception, everyone's conversation revolved around the battle on the Tianbao Supreme Sect's Seven Stars Platform today—a battle that would decide the ownership of Wanfa Peak and perhaps even determine the sect's landscape for decades to come.
Chen Qing and Nan Zhuoran.
Over the past several days, these two names had become the hottest topic of discussion in the streets and alleys of Tianbao Giant City and even the Three Paths Land.
The position of Peak Master was certainly coveted, but what truly tugged at everyone's heartstrings was the significance represented by this duel.
The Tianbao Supreme Sect was the undisputed towering tree of the Three Paths Land.
The five Millennial Families, along with hundreds of sects and clans large and small, all clung to it like vines, drawing nourishment from it and rising and falling with its prosperity and decline.
Whichever way the shadow of the canopy leaned, the ecology beneath the tree would undergo drastic changes.
If Nan Zhuoran won, then the Nine Heavens Vein's momentum, blazing like the noonday sun, would become unstoppable, and the forces attached to it would naturally rise with the tide.
If Chen Qing won, it would mean that the long-silent True Martial lineage was rising powerfully. The flow of sect resources and influence would