Alliance

The Water Palace's main hall.

The eight gods took their seats, with delicacies spread before each of them.

Of course, the fare was still a notch below the heavenly wine and jade dew served earlier by the Huoshan Mountain God. Fang Yuan had only just become a River God and had not had much time to build up his stores. But the gods barely touched the food, keeping their attention fixed on the two mountain gods who had arrived later.

The mountain gods of Pingshan and Yunding looked like wild men, dressed in tiger-skin skirts. Now they spoke aggressively. "Canglang River God, you and the Huoshan Mountain God killed Bai Jianfei, a Heavenly Immortal of the Lingfei Sword Sect, and brought down a calamity so great it reached the heavens. That's why you had no choice but to ask us for help. Isn't that right?"

"You made trouble for yourselves, and that would have been bad enough. But now you want to drag us into it too. Your intentions are downright malicious!"

As soon as the two mountain gods sat down, they exposed what Fang Yuan and the Huoshan Mountain God had done, stirring an uproar among the four water gods.

"What? Those two gods killed Bai Jianfei?"

The three sisters looked utterly astonished and exchanged glances. "Even within a divine domain, the three of us might not be able to take down a Heavenly Immortal together. After all, he's a whole rank above us!"

"Good riddance!"

The Jing River God, whose face was as dark as a black-faced deity's, suddenly clapped and laughed. "The Lingfei Sword Sect has always thrown its weight around. It deserves its comeuppance!"

He looked at the Huoshan Mountain God and Fang Yuan with admiration, raising a thumb. "I've wanted to teach them a