Before Iron Dragon City, Old Freak Ding of the Free and Unfettered Palace took the initiative to show himself and speak. But what he said left everyone aghast. Teng Qingshan, who had vanished for more than four years, had appeared again—and had actually achieved the Void Realm Grand Dao, becoming an ancestor-level figure.
This was the Void Realm, powerful enough to suppress an entire province. Across the whole Nine Provinces, there were only twenty or thirty people at that level. How old was Teng Qingshan this year? Yet he had already achieved the Void Realm. This was simply... another feat that would go down in history.
"What else did you want to say?"
Teng Qingshan calmly regarded Old Freak Ding of the Free and Unfettered Palace. Facing the probing gazes coming from all directions, an unprecedentedly sharp aura erupted from him. "Although your Free and Unfettered Palace and my Xingyi Sect have no major enmity, Qing Province lies right beside Yangzhou, like a knife at my bedside. Your Free and Unfettered Palace is powerless to defend it, so you have no right to possess these eighteen commanderies of Qing Province."
"Hmph! Anyone can make grand claims, but my Free and Unfettered Palace has guarded Qing Province for over a thousand years. We won't simply admit defeat."
Old Freak Ding snorted coldly. He did not ask why Teng Qingshan and the others had brought troops to attack. On the surface, the upper echelons of the Nine Provinces were calm and restrained with one another, but in truth, this was the unavoidable result of years of overt and covert struggle.
The Xingyi Sect had risen too recently. The rise of any new power was bound to encounter resistance and suppression. Although the Gui Yuan Sect and Green Lake Island within Yangzhou were