The thirty-day countdown hung over the heart of every living being in the myriad worlds like an invisible death warrant.
The war had temporarily subsided, but no one dared relax in the slightest. Under Chu Tian's forceful push, the former site of the Human God Dynasty welcomed the most pivotal day in the history of the myriad worlds.
"The Heavens Federation" was officially declared established!
Representatives of the ten clans, the Lord of Taichu, the Withered Wood Ancient Ancestor, Bai Meier, the Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor, Taishan the Great God... all the forces that had once fought on their own, even as mortal enemies, sat around the same round table for the first time and jointly established the highest laws of wartime.
Yet the Federation's founding was far from smooth. The greatest conflict erupted over the resettlement of those hundred thousand "Silent Abyss refugees."
"I oppose settling them in the core starfields!" The sect master of a major local sect slammed his hand on the table and rose, his face full of indignation. "Silent Abyss blood runs through their veins! Who knows whether they're only pretending to be pitiful? What if they're hidden pawns left behind by the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor?!"
"That's right! Countless of our ancestors died at the hands of the Silent Abyss. How can such a sea-deep blood feud be cast aside just because we say so?" Voices of agreement rose one after another.
The hatred accumulated between the two worlds over countless eras was, at this moment, brewing madly among the common people and low-level cultivators like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Just as the meeting reached a deadlock, a bloody conflict suddenly broke out in the refugee settlement behind the Divine Pass.
"Kill him! He's a monster!"
A group of enraged cultivators from