Nine Provinces, before the Heavenly Continent Garrison Hall, an ancient tree towering into the clouds swayed gracefully.
Little Nine stood beneath the tree, gazing up at the sky as he let out a long breath. "They've finally all left!"
Events had unfolded exactly as he had expected. As Old Tree exerted his strength, the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure's concealment quickly lost its effect, drawing numerous foreign cultivators to gather outside Nine Provinces and eye Old Tree like tigers watching their prey.
But by now, all those cultivators had departed.
Lu Ye's three blades in the projection had been far too terrifying. No one dared overlook them. Besides, the Cycle Tree was clearly no Supreme Treasure that could be easily subdued. Even without Lu Ye's threat, those Uniting Dao cultivators had basically had no chance of subduing a Supreme Treasure with intelligence.
Since that was the case, there was naturally no reason to linger and court unnecessary danger.
"Lu Ye has actually become this powerful." Little Nine's face was filled with excitement.
He was not a cultivator and had no particularly intuitive understanding of the difference in cultivators' cultivation or strength. But he knew that the cultivators who had invaded the starry sky recently were all so-called Uniting Dao cultivators, beings the starry sky's cultivators were currently incapable of matching.
Yet this group of powerhouses, who seemed so formidable in the eyes of the starry sky's cultivators, had been no more than pigs and dogs beneath Lu Ye's blade.
He knew that, following Lu Ye's actions this time, the crisis facing the starry sky had temporarily been resolved. The tension that had gripped his heart finally eased as well.
In an elegant private room atop a tall building on Three Realms Island in the Myriad Phenomena Sea, Lu Ye and Yuan Xi