"Heh heh heh... Are you really willing to hand over the wealth you worked so hard to accumulate to a sect that appeared out of nowhere?"
"Resist! Fight!"
"As long as you dare to resist, my Netherworld Cult will support you from the shadows and make them pay in blood."
With the covert incitement and backing of the four great Divine Sect-level forces,
the medium- and small-sized factions that had always harbored doubts or resentment toward the Chaos Sacred Sect, as well as those brimming with ambition, began plotting one after another.
They saw hope in refusing to submit. They saw an opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
A hidden current targeting the Chaos Sacred Sect was quietly surging through the East Continent Central Region.
The East Continent Central Region was stirring once more.
The Chaos Sacred Sect—the newly risen hegemon that had climbed to power over the bones of the Xuanba Sword Sect.
Before it could fully secure its rule, it was already facing storms from every direction.
Those factions that had once prostrated themselves beneath the Xuanba Sword Sect had, under the covert instigation and support of the four great Divine Sects, actually begun harboring thoughts they had no business having.
For a time, the Chaos Sacred Sect's takeover of the industries left behind by the Xuanba Sword Sect encountered unprecedented resistance.
The spirit mines that should have belonged to the Chaos Sacred Sect were infiltrated every night by mysterious cultivators.
Like greedy giant rats, they plundered the mines frantically, leaving behind nothing but devastation.
The pill shops' business was also viciously suppressed by a sudden force.
They dumped pills at prices far below cost, throwing the market into chaos and leaving the Chaos Sacred Sect's pills unwanted.
The artifact-forging workshops suffered even worse. Not only were their