The Strife of the Three Sects

After finalizing the list of aid recipients.

Wang Yuan, Sect Master of the Li Tang Sect, had no intention of staying to involve himself in the affairs of the seven great sects and the various powers.

For all these years, regardless of whether it was strong or weak, the Li Tang Sect had never intended to expand outward. Its sphere of influence had always remained within the Li Tang Mountains.

That was because the founding patriarch, the Needle-Staring Great Emperor, had once made a grand vow: unless the sea demons never again set foot on the Nine Heavens Continent, the Li Tang Sect was forbidden from leaving the Li Tang Mountains for generation after generation!

"Everyone, now that the matter has been settled, the sect is busy with preparations for the coming war. Wang shall take his leave first."

Wang Yuan rose and bid everyone farewell.

"Safe travels, Sect Master Wang."

Everyone smiled and responded in turn.

Wang Yuan nodded, took out a smoking pipe, lit it, and drew deeply. Two thick streams of white smoke billowed from his nostrils, transforming into a white snow leopard mount.

Wang Yuan rode atop the snow leopard. With a howl, it soared into the sky and vanished from everyone's sight at astonishing speed.

"What a remarkable young man. Who would have thought that Sect Master Wang, at such a young age, could already command that snow leopard sacred beast so freely?"

An elderly Nascent Soul cultivator sighed sincerely.

He had joined his sect on three campaigns against the sea demons and had seen the snow leopard sacred beast that the Li Tang Sect revered as the Snow Leopard Patriarch, the sect's guardian beast.

Back when the Needle-Staring Great Emperor had roamed the Nine Heavens Continent, the snow leopard had accompanied him at his