The killing of the black-robed Eternal Expert had served as a deterrent. Those revived Eternal Experts did not dare cause trouble in Rainbow City. Even when they entered, they followed the rules and behaved themselves.
Chen Lin's prestige shone like the sun at its zenith.
This was not what he wanted, but there was nothing he could do. He had reached this point one step at a time, and it was too late to keep a low profile now.
Guo Tiezui and the others also entered the city in batches to rest.
Moreover.
When Chen Lin returned to Rainbow City, quite a few more Oddities came over from Oddity Island, bringing the number of Eternal Experts in the city to over twenty. The other cultivators no longer dared act as they pleased.
Yet the city remained prosperous.
This prosperity, however, was not what its founders had originally intended, and the original alliance had changed beyond recognition.
Jin Ruhua returned to Holy Sword Manor to attempt her ascension to the Eternal Realm.
Mingyue Shuanghua left.
The Bizarre King, whom Chen Lin had sent to the Abyss, had yet to return. White Bird had been killed by the Big-Headed Tribe, and the Secluded Families had withered away. Of those who had helped establish Rainbow City, only True King's Manor, Star Vortex, and the Left Alliance remained.
One could not help marveling at how quickly the world changed.
This was also why no one wanted to build an alliance.
Shifts in power in the cultivation world were fraught with uncertainty. Things were somewhat better within a single family or sect, but an alliance like this would inevitably end up sewing someone else's wedding clothes once a powerful expert appeared, all its painstaking efforts flowing away with the river.
Time slipped by.
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