When Yan Zi arrived, the storm raging inside Passage Number Three was at its fiercest.
A meeting was underway there, and Hong Jiantong, the current sect leader of the Donghua Immortal Sect, was actually in attendance.
More than twenty people had taken part in the meeting. Most of them belonged to the Donghua Immortal Sect; only three were outsiders.
One was the Ninth Elder of the Saint Clan. The other two came from the Taiqing Upper Sect: Elder Qi of its Law Enforcement Hall, and Du Kui, the Young Sect Master of the Taiqing Upper Sect and an old acquaintance of Xu Yi's.
After spending some time in the Taiqing Upper Sect's Nether Prison, Du Kui had become a brooding, sinister man with a terrible temper. He had slammed the table and blown up several times.
Even Elder Qi, who had come with him, couldn't calm him down.
After all the arguing, the two sides had reached an impasse.
As it turned out, this so-called meeting was really a business deal, a transaction.
At the heart of the negotiations was the fact that the Saint Clan and the Taiqing Upper Sect no longer wanted to submit to the Donghua Immortal Sect.
The Saint Clan in particular had only one core interest in sending the Ninth Elder this time: to inform the Donghua Immortal Sect that it no longer intended to help guard Passage Number Three.
If the Donghua Immortal Sect agreed, the two sides would sign an agreement.
If it didn't, the two sects would become enemies from that moment on, with no affection or honor left between them. They would be at each other's throats in an instant.
Du Kui, representing the Taiqing Upper Sect, had also made his sect's position clear: it would stand with the Saint Clan