Retreating from the World, Entering It

Although forces like the Purple Crane Immortal Sect felt humiliated and enraged, faced with Fan Xiao's coercion, they had no choice but to lower their proud heads and submit.

In the past, although they were not particularly powerful and could not compare to major forces like the Dong Chu clan, the foundation they had accumulated over countless years meant that even the Dong Chu clan would not dare attack them lightly.

If they truly came to blows, then even if they could not contend against the Dong Chu clan, they were still confident they could rely on their sect foundations to resist for a time.

Even in the worst-case scenario, they could abandon everything and retaliate at any cost.

They could not kill experts stronger than themselves.

But hiding in the shadows and killing those whose cultivation and strength were inferior to theirs was as easy as turning over a hand.

Thus, under normal circumstances, even forces like the Dong Chu clan would not easily ignite a conflict.

Even if there was friction, it was usually only a tentative taste, never taken too far.

But now!

When they learned that their respective sect gates had all been destroyed by the Huangting Immortal Alliance in a short span of time, their scalps went numb. They understood that the person behind the Huangting Immortal Alliance was a trouble they absolutely could not afford to provoke—perhaps even a taboo.

This taboo might be even more terrifying than a Grand Unity Immortal Realm force like the Dong Chu clan.

Because if they were pushed too far, they could still bite the Dong Chu clan back.

But faced with the Huangting Immortal Alliance—with an existence that had destroyed all their sect gates in a short time and captured every person they had left behind alive—they