"There's no need to say much about the strength of the Wu and Yao clans. After years of development, the Jiejiao of the East Sea has become an excellent place for nurturing immortals, and its strength has long since ceased to be inferior to that of the Eastern Heaven. Thus, any one of these three factions would be beyond what our Southern Heaven could resist... Fellow Daoist Xia, when you say you want to liberate Southern Heaven, do you mean the entire Southern Heaven? That would be tantamount to resisting the encroachment of all three factions. And if we seize the passage as well, I'm afraid the trouble will be even greater." Another elder came forward and said this to me.
After Xue Shuqi of the Cangyun Sect was swallowed by the Cangyun Divine Beast, roughly three elders stepped forward to represent the Cangyun Sect. The most influential was Zhou Zhuoxin, the first seat of the Discipline Hall. The other two were the first seats of the Internal Affairs Hall and Foreign Affairs Hall. All three were seasoned and steady elders who likewise lacked any desire to advance, but it was precisely because these three conservatives were present that the Cangyun Sect could return to its proper path so quickly. Otherwise, Xue Shuqi would have dragged it far from its center long ago.
"The Jiejiao of the East Sea was the source of this war, and Dongfo Bunian's strength is unfathomably deep as well. However, that doesn't mean no one can deal with them. Besides, even if we reclaim all of Southern Heaven and seize the passage, it won't be closed forever. We simply can't let them occupy the mountains as they please and recklessly mine them. Across the Four Great Continents, do we really have to kill everyone who