True Lord Zhenyue's expression was solemn as he said gravely:
"The True Lords attached great importance to our intelligence and believed that allowing this to continue would only lead to greater losses.
When we left the Central Continent, a coalition formed of Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators had already set out and formally begun attacking the Buddhist cultivators' grand formation."
The results of the Southern Continent operation had been far too earth-shattering. At first, those True Lords had not quite believed what he said, so they questioned him in detail about True Monarch Xuanqing. His answer had been:
*Fellow Daoist Xuanqing's sect's core cultivation method was the Five Elements Cycle Scripture. He chose the path of "Five Elements mutual generation, Myriad Laws Return to One," and possessed an exceptionally profound understanding of all Five Elements power.
Later, within the Five Elements Sect Ruins in the Wan Hua Mountain Range, he inherited the Five Elements Sect's legacy. He should have obtained the complete cultivation method and a vast quantity of resources.
His attacks are now simple and brutal. His chosen spell is Chaos Five Elements Thunder, while his spirit treasure is one that possesses all five elements.
Not only that, he possesses one imitation spirit treasure of each of the Five Innate Banners, and all of those spirit treasures have reached the fourth-tier high-grade level.*
Leaving aside everything else, merely judging by the number of spirit treasures he nurtured was enough to reveal just how formidable True Monarch Xuanqing was.
All the True Lords understood the power of layered Five Elements power. He had also produced evidence proving that Buddhist cultivators at the Ninth Layer Nascent Soul level had perished.
This greatly bolstered the True Lords' confidence. When assaulting a mountain-protecting grand formation, what they needed most was precisely an ally