The Attitudes of All Sides!
The Bear Province Alliance Leader made a decision: he ordered the Bear Province Alliance to spread the news and let every disciple of the Eternal Devil Sect know that the Sword Hiding Hermitage now had an owner.
He also instructed everyone in the Bear Province Alliance to hold their positions and wait for the Heng Province Alliance to make a move before deciding what to do next.
The Bear Province Alliance worked with remarkable efficiency. In just one day, news that the Sword Hiding Hermitage had an owner spread throughout the entire Eternal Devil Sect.
The major province alliances were all shocked.
The province alliances that controlled resources within the Sword Hiding Hermitage were especially alarmed, and they summoned their guardians for a meeting.
Within the Quan Province Alliance, in the meeting hall.
Hundreds of core guardian experts gathered together. The Quan Province Alliance Leader sat at the highest seat and said, "You've all heard, haven't you? News came from the Bear Province Alliance that the Sword Hiding Hermitage now has an owner. This person appeared when the Bear Province Alliance went to collect the Exquisite Ice Crystals. It doesn't sound like a false rumor."
Several guardians immediately rose and said, "What a strange matter. So many outstanding disciples in the Eternal Devil Sect have asked the sect for the Sword Hiding Hermitage. Whether it was Wu Qilin of the Heng Province Alliance or Lei Hou of our Quan Province Alliance, both were rejected by the sect. Why, then, would the sect suddenly bestow the Sword Hiding Hermitage upon some unknown nobody?"
"Leader, we also control cultivation resources in Five Elements Mountain."
"That's right, Leader. The Eighteenth Level of the Fire Domain south of Five Elements Mountain—every year, countless alchemists and artifact refiners in the