The mountains and rivers of the Western Wastes trembled across hundreds of millions of miles.
A golden Sunlit Decree, blazing so fiercely it burned away the clouds, shot skyward from the Sunlit Sacred Hall of the Setting Sun Divine Palace and spanned the lands in every direction!
The Setting Sun Summons!
It was the sternest call for personnel that the Setting Sun Divine Palace, the self-proclaimed absolute ruler of the Western Wastes, could issue to the land's many factions.
It was also a summons of the highest order.
The entire Western Wastes erupted in uproar and shock.
Since the Setting Sun Divine Palace had first announced the existence of the Setting Sun Summons ages ago, it had actually invoked it only twice.
And on those two occasions, the summons had not been issued at so high a level. Those called had merely been Saint Venerables, or even cultivators below the Saint Sect realm.
But now, after countless years, the Setting Sun Divine Palace had revived the Setting Sun Summons at its highest level.
What did a Setting Sun Summons of the highest order mean?
Simple.
It called for only one kind of person: Dao Sages!!
Even within the Setting Sun Divine Palace, Dao Sage ancestors were supreme figures, let alone among the lesser factions of the Western Wastes.
To those factions, every Dao Sage ancestor was a Sea-Calming Pillar, a figure of incomparable standing. They could not afford to lose even one, nor could they bear such a loss.
And so—
Once the shock wore off, the factions that had received the Setting Sun Summons responded in very different ways.
Some feared the Setting Sun Divine Palace's might. Though they were deeply unwilling, they gritted their teeth and sent their Dao Sages to the palace as the summons demanded.
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