Brilliant Xuan Light, Receiving Heavenly Grace; My Bright Mirror Shines, the Sacred Way Endures

Dawn was about to break.

It was not only Ming Heguang and Zhou Jin.

The delegations from all the major powers had all turned their heads toward the east.

The delegations from the remaining three of the Five Sects of Chenli—the Huangyang Sect, Zuohuan Sect, and Liuguang Sect—had not sent any particularly powerful figures.

They were waiting, waiting for the Chief Disciples and second-ranked disciples of the five sects to decide victory and defeat—there was no point in rashly involving themselves in such a conflict. Better to see who emerged victorious, and how grievously they had won, before making further considerations.

The same was true for those from Da Chen, Yuanlong Sea, Taiyuan, and the Lower Sect sects of other regions.

They awaited a slaughter, awaited death. Just as in every brutal war between the Chenli sects in the past, the dead would be carved up, while the victors, should they emerge covered in wounds, would become the next prey.

It was not that they would not fight, nor that they lacked cruelty and cunning. They simply knew clearly that this was not yet the time for them to fight.

And just as countless people harbored countless thoughts, as countless people pondered countless futures—

The sun of a new day rose.

At the far end of the horizon, at the border between mountains and plains, along the line where heaven met earth, a golden-red ray of dawn lit up, piercing the hazy darkness.

At that very instant, high in the heavens, the [Sky Vault Mirror Array] that blanketed the skies around the entire Jiankong Mountain Range and all of the Mingjing Sect began to operate.

Between heaven and earth, the light abruptly became incomparably bright. The radiance of the newborn great sun was refracted and layered again and again by