While the Five Elements Sect's battle against the Heaven Nether Sect had fallen into a disadvantage, the atmosphere over at the Flower Sect also turned extremely bleak, as if even the air had solidified into heavy blocks of lead pressing down on everyone's hearts.
The sky was gloomy, heavy clouds hanging low, carrying a stifling oppression that said the storm was about to come. Among the Flower Sect's stretching peaks, the former fragrance of flowers and tranquility had long since been replaced by murderous Dou Qi. Figure after figure stood in the square prepared to meet the enemy and on the surrounding mountains, their faces grave as they looked toward the sky shrouded in gray aura.
At this point, Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, the Grand Elder of the Heaven Nether Sect, stood treading on empty air. His gray robes snapped in the wind, and his withered frame emitted a terrifying aura that threw even Heaven and Earth Energy into disorder.
He looked down upon the Flower Sect people waiting in tight formation below. On that wrinkled old face, the corner of his mouth slowly pulled into an exaggerated, mocking curve as he said with undisguised derision, "Over this past year, friction between our two sects has been constant, and we have grown more and more irreconcilable. Now that things have come to this, this old man has no choice but to personally step forward and settle it."
Then he paused, looked toward two familiar figures among the Flower Sect's people, and slowly said, "Qing Xianzi, Hua Xianzi, on account of the several hundred years we have known one another, this old man will give you a dignified choice today. As long as everyone in your Flower Sect announces submission to my Heaven Nether Sect and acknowledges my sect as master,