Everything that happened at Lin Yi's Dao Lord Ceremony soon spread through the entire Chaos Cosmic Sea as though it had grown wings.
This was too big.
So big that the news was no longer confined to the ranks of the powerful. From top to bottom, from True Pattern Realm Dao Lords to the lowliest Cosmic Source Realm cultivators, from the capital cities of the Four Constant Domains to the most remote fortresses on the Black Mist Sea front, everyone knew.
Dao Lord Lin Yi had obtained Emperor Luo's legacy treasures.
He had also struck publicly at his Dao Lord Ceremony, killing two True Pattern Realm Dao Lords.
And he had distributed a great many treasures to strengthen the upper ranks.
Any one of these three events alone would have been enough to shake the entire Cosmic Sea for countless universal epochs.
Now that all three had come together, the magnitude of their impact was easy to imagine.
Strangely, however, once the news spread, public opinion did not turn toward accusations that "Dao Lord Star Abyss abused his power to commit murder."
There had been a reason for it.
What those two Dao Lords had done was deeply taboo to begin with.
Coveting another person's secrets, secretly targeting a Dao Lord's friends and family, and forcing someone out of seclusion to test them—such acts crossed a red line in any era, anywhere.
Chen Wu and Luo Yao had crossed that line, and Lin Yi had settled accounts with them on the spot. None of the Dao Lords present had objected, so cultivators elsewhere naturally felt all the more certain that Lin Yi had done nothing wrong.
Besides, the Constant Guard had always enjoyed a good reputation.
As Deputy Commander of the Constant Guard, Lin Yi had spent these years carrying