Qingwang Sect's mountain gate.
Although it wasn't one of Xuanzhou's top-tier sects, it had long held a place in the second tier.
Qingwang Sect had never stood out much in the eyes of cultivators.
It was like a student with middling grades in a class, remembered only when it was time to take attendance.
Recently, however, Qingwang Sect had become quite famous in Xuanzhou. Its name kept cropping up in cultivators' conversations.
The reason was, naturally, what Lu Bai had done at the Dao Commencement Assembly.
The loss of over a hundred Nascent Soul stage cultivators and some outstanding disciples would be unbearable for any sect.
Only because the various sects were sharing the losses had there been no major upheaval.
But someone still had to bear the cost.
At first, they planned to demand an explanation from Qingwang Sect and squeeze some compensation out of them. It couldn't hurt to try.
But as more and more sects made the same choice, things began to take a delicate turn.
The sects that were already weaker than Qingwang Sect, in particular, gradually began to consider taking harsher measures.
Why bother negotiating compensation when they could go straight to Qingwang Sect's treasure vault and pick through it themselves?
No sect could stand against all the sects of Xuanzhou on its own, and Qingwang Sect was no exception.
After some time spent quietly coordinating, a large number of sects reached a consensus. A huge force of cultivators began gathering around Qingwang Sect.
By then, the remaining sects figured they might as well join in. It was only natural to take part in the armed campaign against Qingwang Sect rather than miss out.
The main force hadn't yet attacked Qingwang Sect's mountain gate, but even the scattered cultivators who had slipped inside during this