Ancestor Yan Tian did not say why he had summoned the Western Wastes Dao Sages, and there was nothing the early arrivals could do, however anxious they felt.
They could only wait obediently.
In private, though, they sent each other voice transmissions and debated the matter.
Many sensed that a war between the Western Wastes and the Southern Border might really break out.
Once it did, no one in either region would be able to stand aside.
It would shake the Tianhua Domain's existing order as never before.
Where war arose, fortune and calamity always walked hand in hand.
Who could be sure they would receive the fortune rather than the calamity...
Especially as Dao Sages, they already stood at the summit of the Tianhua Domain. At this level, every one of them wanted to make a run at the legendary realm of Supreme Sage. Who would speak lightly of life and death?
They all had too many misgivings.
As time passed, more Western Wastes Dao Sages hurried in, one after another.
When the last of them reached the square before the Setting Sun Divine Palace's Main Peak Hall just before sunset, over a hundred and fifty Dao Sages had gathered!
Not counting those still detained in Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, those hundred and fifty-odd were nearly every Dao Sage in the Western Wastes.
Perhaps a few habitually hidden Sixth Seniors and wily old schemers had stayed away.
But Ancestor Yan Tian could no longer concern himself with them.
If such people refused to come, he had no good way to deal with them.
They were accustomed to hiding, after all, and the Setting Sun Divine Palace did not even know some of them existed.
How could the palace threaten people it could not find?
Nor had Bright Moon