Since its return, the Mountain Sea Alliance had taken in numerous immortal cultivation factions.
By using this incident—the killing of Void Insight Realm experts from the Celestial Immortal Families—it could also test those factions' true attitudes.
Even Heavenly Dao Oaths had loopholes.
If certain Eternal Giants deliberately hid their true bodies and sent only an avatar, that still counted as honoring their oaths.
Or they could send some disciples, and that, too, would count as honoring their oaths.
The Heavenly Dao was not human.
It had no self-awareness.
It would not actively distinguish loopholes in someone's words, or sincerity from pretense.
Thus, oaths sworn to the Heavenly Dao were "subjective," leaving loopholes to exploit.
Back then, Lin Fei had sworn a Heavenly Dao Oath before the Ji Family's Celestial Immortal patriarch.
If the Nine Heavens Alliance dared enter the Great Flame Dynasty and slaughter innocent civilians, the Great Flame Dynasty and the Ji Family would fight until one side was destroyed.
Later, some cultivators had infiltrated the Great Flame Dynasty and slaughtered innocent civilians.
Lin Fei had not immediately retaliated against the Ji Family.
But in his heart, he accepted that Heavenly Dao Oath to "fight until one side was destroyed" as binding and unchangeable.
There were simply some loopholes to exploit in how and when he fulfilled it.
At the very least, Lin Fei had set no time limit back then.
At most, the Heavenly Dao would assume that he would spend his lifetime fighting the Ji Family until one side was destroyed.
The Heavenly Dao Oath merely bound that karma firmly in place, to be triggered under certain special conditions.
For instance, if someone from the Ji Family appeared before Lin Fei, he would certainly kill them, fighting until one side was destroyed.
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