Most of those attending this grand gathering were Mahayana cultivators from the Spirit Realm.
The information brought by Fairy Yaoxi and Ying Yi was actually aimed only at the Mahayana cultivators. Even if more low-level cultivators learned of it, it would merely add to their anxiety.
Everyone knew how to control a realm: capture the Mahayana cultivators within it, then one could easily control the super sects in that realm and do whatever one wished.
Before a Mahayana cultivator, the sects within a realm truly had little choice but to obey. Even if one or two dared to resist, the moment the Mahayana cultivator gave the order, countless cultivators would spring into action and surround those disobedient sects. Then the sects would be breached, and the land would be stained with blood and corpses.
That was clearly how Zou Rui's side had acted.
The Spirit Realm's Mahayana cultivators gathered in Void City were here to devise countermeasures against precisely such a situation.
This was a valley sealed off by restrictions. A stream murmured through it, and amid the dense woods lay an open space. There were no tables or chairs, only numerous square stones scattered about. The rocks had been polished by human hands and bore the marks of time. Clearly, people often gathered here.
Several dozen Mahayana cultivators had already arrived. They sat in groups of three or five atop the rocks, most with their eyes closed, though twenty or thirty were speaking in low voices. Every face was gloomy, weighed down by heavy thoughts.
By this point, even those who did not know the specifics could sense that something was amiss.
Saintly Venerable Shiyou and the others had kept their mouths tightly sealed, refusing to let the information leak. They did not want the matter publicized; the information