"Hmph. That brat's actions just now were nothing more than a fluke. With his true cultivation, my nephew certainly wouldn't have been captured by him. Fellow Daoist Shi, I agree that my nephew should continue challenging that brat."
Before the Li family Core Formation cultivator could answer, the Li family Nascent Soul cultivator from Tongzhou on the stone platform had already turned cold-eyed and spoke icily.
The Li family had sent an elder here in person precisely with the intention of making this marriage alliance happen.
The Three Realms War was drawing near. Any Cultivation World family or faction with some foresight was secretly building up its strength. The Three Realms War could be said to contain both danger and opportunity.
The classics already contained countless examples. By relying on a single Three Realms War, even an obscure small cultivation family or minor sect could possibly grow greatly in strength and flourish for thousands of years.
One had to know that many rare treasures of immense benefit to Human Realm cultivators existed in the Demon and Yin Ghost Realms. As long as one could enter and plunder them, one would certainly gain something.
Although it sounded simple, truly entering the other two realms was by no means an easy matter.
Entering alone would be no different from courting death. Therefore, the entire Cultivation World had to coordinate and act together. The people responsible for coordinating and commanding all the cultivators of the Deqing Empire's Cultivation World were those first-rate sects.
For a third- or fourth-rate cultivation family like the Li family, it was no easy matter to curry favor with those first-rate sects.
Although the Hundred Skills Gate was an even more insignificant minor sect in the Deqing Empire's Cultivation World, its geographical position was extraordinarily important. Whether defending or