Wanyang's answer did not disappoint anyone. Instead, they were pleased: it was good as long as there were rules.
Among the many forces at Liba Beach, no one believed Feng Jun would act with absolute impartiality—no one could restrain him anymore.
All they wanted was for any favoritism to remain within reason. That was only human nature.
At present, the Golden Crow Sect held the upper hand throughout Liba Beach, but that truly did not matter. As long as there were rules, whose sect did not have an Upper Sect standing above it? The Upper Sects would step forward to uphold justice.
After the meeting, Xiaodong and Sumiao could not help muttering to each other, "What a pity. Those Grand Void Sect cultivators who came were all here to sound things out. None of them truly intended to form a Core Embrace, or we could have saved a sum."
In fact, with Yi Jue's authorization, the Supreme Clarity Sect had already spread word to some of its lower sects. The awkward part was that many of them did not believe Kun Hao could produce a Fellow-Path Aura—could your impoverished domain even produce three Core Embraces in a year?
The Fellow-Path Aura was still an unverified theory, but some concrete data supported it. That was... such an aura could last for at most half a year. Without further cultivators forming Core Embraces, the aura would dissipate.
When the Xuanhuang Sect was flourishing, a Fellow-Path Aura had appeared for a time. In merely fifty or sixty years, more than four hundred Golden Cores emerged. Later, as the aura weakened, the Xuanhuang Sect promptly realized something was wrong and lifted its restrictions, allowing cultivators from other sects to borrow its land to form Core Embraces.
But the other six sects were not without