When Su Jie and the Ning Family Sisters emerged from underground and flew to the surface, the place had already descended into complete chaos.
The Myriad Dragon Pearl hovered silently in the air. To seize this legendary Dao treasure, the foreign cultivators who had seemed united were the first to erupt into internal conflict, drawing their blades against one another solely to claim it.
The experts from the Aristocratic Clans, by contrast, had not joined in at all. They merely watched coldly from the sidelines.
"Patriarch Li, aren't we joining them?"
Another Aristocratic Clan's Purple Mansion expert spoke up. Anyone would be moved and covetous at the sight of a Myriad Dragon Pearl like this.
"I've already notified the Holy Son. He'll be arriving shortly."
Li Daozhong gave a cold snort, his knife-sharp gaze sweeping across them. "Don't entertain thoughts you shouldn't have. The Canggu Continent is destined to return to the control of the Nine Heavens Sacred Land. Even if we seize the Myriad Dragon Pearl, we'll have to hand it over to the Nine Heavens Sacred Land. We don't have the strength to keep it. Rather than that, we might as well use it to win the Nine Heavens Sacred Land's favor."
The other Aristocratic Clan's Purple Mansion experts immediately extinguished the restlessness in their hearts.
What Li Daozhong said was indeed true. A treasure like the Myriad Dragon Pearl was simply beyond their reach.
Never mind whether they could seize it. The moment they offended the Nine Heavens Sacred Land, their families would be slaughtered, while they themselves would be hunted down and left dead without even a whole corpse.
"Fight, you bunch of fools."
As he watched the foreign cultivators locked in battle, Li Daozhong's eyes suddenly narrowed. When he saw Su Jie and Ning Yunying