"This matter will be put on hold for now. Conduct the investigation in secret. Every faction should contribute manpower and funds to restore this place as quickly as possible. We all need a Dream City."
The highest-ranking elder voiced his position, and everyone nodded solemnly in agreement.
Although every faction had suffered grievous losses in this incident, Dream City had to continue existing. They all needed such a place to handle matters that were inconvenient for them to deal with personally.
As for the investigation, it could only be carried out in secret.
Moreover, their current priority was guarding against the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while continuing to suppress the spread of the Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
They not only had to confiscate the copies and hunt down those mudlegs and Soul Masters from minor clans who possessed the Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul, but also spread rumors to smear it and steer public opinion.
They had to buy themselves time to develop at any cost, so they could remain ahead in the new era instead of being eliminated by those mudlegs.
"Troubled times indeed!"
Someone sighed. Too much had happened over the past year.
First, the Clear Sky Sect's young master had colluded with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, only to be severely wounded when Spirit Hall used it as an excuse. Then the Clear Sky Sect's young master and that Soul Beast killed Spirit Hall's Holy Son, after which Spirit Hall attacked the Clear Sky Sect and dealt it another devastating blow.
After that, the long-missing Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Chen, appeared and became the inheritor of a god. He might reach level one hundred and become a god at any moment. Even Qian Daoliu, who was known as the