After they went their separate ways.
Bai Yi and the others returned to Great Wall Dao Palace to report back.
When Dao Lord Huang heard that the cooperation had succeeded, he was overjoyed and laid out a banquet for Bai Yi and the others.
Yet outside the hall, Huang Qiusheng, both Dao Lord and clan head, got into an argument with one of his confidants.
"Clan Head, there is something I do not understand. Why did you give Dragon Sea City so many people? Five hundred people! Dao Palace is already short on manpower itself, and quite a few people in the clan have sent their fifteen- or sixteen-year-old children to guard the Great Wall Barrier."
"And now you have dispatched five hundred of Dao Palace's personal elite and even handed over their life-and-death plaques. Aren't you practically giving them away on a silver platter?"
Huang Qiusheng wore a smile, showing no displeasure as he said slowly, "Your vision is still too narrow. You only concern yourself with momentary gains and losses. If we do not win over Dragon Sea City, the entire Dao Palace will be finished. When that happens, the Dugu Clan will be the first to put the Huang Clan to the knife."
"At best, we will be driven from our ancestral lands; at worst, our clan will face extermination. My Huang Clan has lived here for over six thousand years... If not for the two ancestors who perished fighting the Immortal Clans during the Immortal Sea War a thousand years ago, we would not have fallen to the point of sitting at the same table as these so-called immortal city factions."
The Immortal Sea War had taken place over fourteen hundred years ago. At the time, Great Wall Dao Palace had been sheltered by one Supreme