"Yuan Zhang, don't say any more."
"How could you say such things in front of Lord Li?"
"I know you want to stand up for us, but there's no need. None at all. We don't feel wronged."
"The victor rules and the loser falls. It's always been that way."
"Besides, now that Lord Li controls the Authority over the Tianhua Domain, its flaws have begun to mend. That's already the greatest gift he could give us."
Supreme Sage Qian Feng was frantic.
He reached out to pull Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang back.
But Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang waved a hand and knocked his away.
Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang glared at Supreme Sage Qian Feng.
"Qian Feng, you've disappointed me."
"The Authority over the Tianhua Domain rightfully belongs to us. Why should an outsider control it?"
"And you call the mending of the Tianhua Domain's flaws the greatest gift he could give us, just because he took control of its Authority? What a joke. Why would our domain need an outsider to repair it?"
With that,
Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang swept out a hand, and a sapling appeared in his palm. It looked like the seedling of a strange tree: a trunk only a few dozen centimeters tall, with three branches bearing a dozen or so leaves each.
It looked unremarkable, yet it radiated extraordinarily vigorous life force and an unfathomably profound Dao Resonance.
"Do you know what this is?"
"This is a Sky Tree Sapling I brought back from the Myriad Sources Continent. It can draw in a world's origin by nature and grow from it. As it grows, it brings forth that world's most fundamental order."
"In the end, the Sky Tree and the world's origin become one, and order evolves through it."
"The Sky Tree then becomes the