Sure enough.
Yunmeng Heavenly Venerable and the others' concerns soon became reality.
After the seven Heavenly Venerables of Gufang Divine Hall returned in anger, they immediately made their move. However, that move was not aimed directly at Dream God Hall.
Instead, they turned their sights toward several small factions entrenched around Gufang Divine Hall.
In terms of scale, these small factions were even inferior to the former Cloud Gate. Yet there was one point worth mentioning: each of these small factions had produced a Heavenly Venerable.
Gufang Divine Hall had originally intended to subdue all these surrounding small factions.
However, their previous strategies and methods had tended toward gentleness.
After all, those small factions had all produced Heavenly Venerables, and no one capable of becoming a Heavenly Venerable lacked pride in their bones. Unless driven to desperation, who would willingly bow beneath another?
If their methods were too domineering and they failed to subdue them, they might instead drive those Heavenly Venerables away, or even turn them against Gufang Divine Hall. Should they take things to extremes and secretly retaliate against Gufang Divine Hall, it would be Gufang Divine Hall that suffered the loss.
This time, however, things were different.
Gufang Divine Hall had suffered a setback at Dream God Hall's hands. It made them realize that their past methods had been too gentle, to the point that the surrounding factions lacked any sense of awe toward Gufang Divine Hall.
Once given the chance to rise, these small factions would dare to stand against Gufang Divine Hall, just like Cloud Gate.
Thus—
Gufang Divine Hall cast aside its former gentle approach and directly issued an ultimatum to the surrounding small factions.
Either submit to Gufang Divine Hall and voluntarily merge into it, or die!
There was no third choice!
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