Firming Up the Self

Liao Kingdom.

Located north of Langya Pavilion, within the Primordial Unity Domain of the Heaven's Center Realm, it fell under the jurisdiction of Sunshine Pavilion and was one of its thirty-two subordinate kingdoms.

By the rules of the Nine Saints, the Heaven's Center Realm was divided into more than two hundred nations. No nation was permitted to annex another; they could only wage war.

Put plainly, nations would not perish—but peace did not exist either.

The major sects joined with some of the smaller Immortal Sects below them, each dispatching their disciples into the various countries to assist them in battle.

Liao Kingdom was considered one of the larger nations among the thirty-two countries of the Primordial Unity Domain, and thus answered directly to Sunshine Pavilion.

Facing them was Ling Kingdom, a nation directly under Langya Pavilion.

That was precisely why Langya Pavilion had issued the mission to assassinate Marquis Kuangyun back then—the mission had in fact been issued by Ling Kingdom, with Langya Pavilion merely passing it along.

Yet now, Marquis Kuangyun had sent Ning Ye an emergency talisman pleading for aid. The implications were profound.

But that was cultivators for you.

Cultivators did not truly care about conflicts between nations. Their actions were guided only by profit.

For cultivators, if there was a need, helping the other side was no great matter. It would not even count as betraying one's sect; at most, one needed to submit a written explanation and hand over a certain amount of additional profit.

Three days later.

Ning Ye arrived at Mirror City with Linlang, Xuanyuan Long, Wolfbane, and Ye Gu.

Mirror City stood on Liao Kingdom's northern frontier. Though it was a border city, it had no formidable defensive system, since wars here were fought on the battlefield rather than through sieges