"I never said that."
The old man in the Spirit 통 Realm shook his head.
"It's just that many cultivation factions have already answered the call of the Mystic Mechanism Palace and the Iron Sword Alliance. As for the others, they're merely watching and waiting. No one has voiced any opposition to Lü Wangqiu and Luo Zishi's call."
"Of course no one would oppose it."
The middle-aged cultivator countered:
"Could anyone possibly compromise with the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord? Besides, ever since the Mystic Mechanism Palace and the Iron Sword Alliance began rallying our fellow cultivators in the northern border, Edgeless City has been the most enthusiastic in its response. With a colossus like Edgeless City taking the lead, naturally everything has gone smoothly."
"Forget it."
Then the old man in the Spirit 통 Realm sighed again, gently rubbing his fingers against his teacup twice.
"There's no use saying any more. If things keep getting worse, I'm going to leave the Immortal Origin Land and go back home. Who cares how far I can travel along the path of immortality? Staying alive matters more."
The thin-faced immortal cultivator beside them, whose cultivation was in the middle stage of the qi sea realm, had remained silent the entire time.
He quietly observed the argument that had just taken place between the two.
The Mystic Mechanism Palace had little prestige to speak of in the Immortal Origin Land's cultivation world. Although the Iron Sword Alliance enjoyed a resounding reputation, both its veteran Sword Chiefs, Chu Fengyun and Pei Jinghan, had already fallen. With only a newly appointed Sword Chief like Lü Wangqiu at its helm—innocent and carefree, to put it kindly, or dim-witted, to put it unkindly—its influence had been greatly diminished as well.
Just as the middle-aged cultivator had said, the