Two pieces of news spread through the cultivation world of the East Sea: one major, one minor. The major news was that the old Dragon King of the East Sea Dragon Palace had officially undergone Liberation by Violence. The Dragon Palace had been destroyed and rebuilt, and the cause was astonishingly Yan Chihuo and Mo Han of the Sea Heaven Sect. The East Sea Dragon Palace was enraged by this and demanded that the human race hand over Yan Chihuo and Mo Han, while severely punishing the Sea Heaven Sect. As representatives of the East Sea's human cultivation sects, the Seven Hegemons of the East Sea formally rejected the Dragon Palace's demand.
The other, smaller matter also concerned the Sea Heaven Sect: the Tianyang Kingdom's royal family had officially formed an alliance with the Sea Heaven Sect and married Princess Snow Fairy to Yan Chihuo.
Though this was a minor matter, to the East Sea cultivation world it became a sign of the East Sea expanding its influence across the Heavenly Heart Continent. Naturally, those sects did not know that Snow Fairy was not valued within Tianyang Kingdom's royal family.
Meanwhile, Yan Chihuo, the central figure in both affairs, was cultivating within his cave abode. Astonishingly, his cultivation had reached the peak of the early Spirit Cultivation Stage.
It turned out that when the Sea Heaven Sect announced its alliance with the Tianyang Kingdom's royal family—and that Yan Chihuo had married a princess—events unfolded exactly as the Sea Heaven Sect and the Third Supreme Emperor had expected. After deliberation, the major East Sea sects reached a decision: what Yan Chihuo had done was an act that glorified human cultivators. If they yielded to the Dragon Palace over this, would that not chill the hearts of cultivators? If conflict broke out