Sage Compromise! Giving Up on Nezha!

Kunlun Mountain, Jade Void Palace.

Clouds churned across the sea, and immortal aura curled through the air. The Sage's Dojo, unchanged for countless eons, was now shrouded in a suffocating atmosphere.

A streak of light shot across the horizon before finally stopping outside the Jade Void Palace.

The light faded, revealing True Lord Taiyi.

After leaving Chaoge City, True Lord Taiyi had rushed here without stopping.

He had to beg his master for forgiveness.

Because of him, his master and the entire Chan Sect had suffered unprecedented humiliation.

They had been blackmailed by a Human Emperor, forcing a Sage to compromise.

If word of this got out, the Chan Sect would become the laughingstock of the Three Realms.

True Lord Taiyi straightened his slightly disheveled Daoist robe and walked up to the tightly shut palace gates.

Then his knees gave way, and he fell heavily to the ground.

"Your disciple Tai Yi was utterly incompetent, causing Master and the Chan Sect to suffer such great humiliation!"

"I have come to beg Master's forgiveness!"

The palace gates remained silent, without the slightest response.

But True Lord Taiyi knew that his master must have heard him.

He knelt there without moving as the mountain's fierce winds whipped his Daoist robe, making it snap loudly.

No one knew how much time had passed.

Only then did the massive, solemn gates of the Jade Void Palace silently swing inward.

An indifferent yet dignified will drifted out from within the palace.

"Come in."

True Lord Taiyi's body trembled. Only then did he dare to rise, entering the Jade Void Palace step by step with a heart full of trepidation.

The main hall was vast and imposing.

A figure sat high upon a Cloud Bed. His form was indistinct, yet he seemed to be the center