The decisive battle between the Five Peaks Sword Sects and the Sun Moon Holy Cult had actually been brewing for a long time, with preparations for it dating all the way back to Ren Woxing's era.
But the true beginning of this conflict could be traced back to the Five Peaks Alliance Summit.
During the Five Peaks Alliance Summit, everyone had had their own agenda. Zuo Lengchan had intended to use the opportunity to swallow up the Five Peaks, but he had never planned to formally go to war with the Sun Moon Holy Cult so soon, much less clash head-on with Dongfang Bubai so quickly.
Dongfang Bubai, meanwhile, was a shut-in who only knew how to embroider birds in his inner chambers, and he had even less interest in fighting Zuo Lengchan.
Originally, as long as someone as fond of stirring up trouble as Ren Woxing was kept from taking power, this battle would never have happened. Perhaps everyone would merely shout about annihilating the other side while actually going about their own business.
Even if they made the entire martial world miserable, they would not truly fight each other to mutual destruction.
I'd consolidate my power, and you'd work on your beauty treatments.
Everyone would understand without saying it aloud. Wouldn't that have been wonderful?
But as the saying went, bad things weren't scary; bad people were!
And if there was anything more terrifying than encountering one "bad person," it was encountering two of them—and having both occupy the core decision-making positions on opposing sides.
The Heaven and Ghost disciples of the Divine Constable Bureau had adhered to the bureau's consistent principle: "Whoever causes trouble, we deal with them." One had planted a hidden move at the Five Peaks Alliance Summit, laying the fuse for this great war.