Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, the Main Peak's Main Hall.
Moonlight swirled through the hall.
Moon-Tide Dao Sage and Ancestor Qingxuan sat facing each other.
They chatted with easy smiles and warm expressions, but beneath the surface, every word carried a hidden edge.
Moon-Tide Dao Sage still could not understand it. This was clearly a dispute between Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and the Setting Sun Divine Palace. Why had Ancestor Qingxuan suddenly appeared and intervened?
He had even declared in public that the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect would not stand idly by.
Moon-Tide Dao Sage was no three-year-old. He would not believe that the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect had acted to stop the Setting Sun Divine Palace and Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley from going to war and plunging countless lives into misery.
That might fool ordinary cultivators, but how could it fool him?
East, south, west, and north of Tianhua Domain... among the great powers of every region, which had not put its interests first all these years? Their struggles over profit had never ceased.
The Azure Cloud Heaven Sect had never been moved by compassion for the world.
For Ancestor Qingxuan to intervene at such a critical moment, he must have weighed the benefits.
What Moon-Tide Dao Sage wanted to know was what Ancestor Qingxuan—or rather, the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect—was after.
But while it was easy to wonder, it was hard to ask.
If he asked outright, he would only make things awkward and would not get a real answer.
All he could do was probe from the side, using seemingly trivial questions to coax Ancestor Qingxuan into letting something slip.
Unfortunately, Ancestor Qingxuan was no greenhorn. He was a Dao Sage ancestor of immense seniority in the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect, a fox that had