The Northern Mysterious side compromised, allowing the soon-to-emerge Order Divine Artifact and the Small World to be moved inside the Nine Heavens Profound Blazing Fire barrier. However, Xi Yue and the others took the opportunity to make a demand: Near-Gods who possessed an Order Divine Artifact were not allowed to compete for this one. This would undoubtedly give the divine beast Qilin an even greater opportunity.
Unless something unexpected happened, the Order Divine Artifact would certainly fall into the divine beast Qilin's hands. That would leave the cultivators from the Earth and Yellow realms empty-handed while strengthening the alliance's side—a gain on several fronts.
The big shots from the Immortal Realm had already left, leaving only a few Heaven's Might Envoys behind to guard the area, along with quite a number of Near-Gods who had their eyes on the Order Divine Artifact. However, they wouldn't attack Ling Tian and the others before the fight for the artifact began. To them, preserving their strength for the competition was most important. After all, if one side made a rash move, the other two would follow suit; it simply wasn't worth it.
"Ling Tian, since most of the big shots from the Immortal Realm have withdrawn, it's a foregone conclusion that the divine beast Qilin will win this Order Divine Artifact. That means half of our agreement with Tan Tai Chang Feng and the others has been fulfilled," Yao Yu said. Then she looked at Xiao Shi. "Once the divine beast Qilin has the Order Divine Artifact, its strength will be even greater. It should be easy for it to protect Xiao Shi while taking him into that Small World."
From what Tan Tai Chang Feng had said, the Qilin divine beast hidden inside the Nine Heavens Profound Blazing Fire barrier was only