"What an Akatsuki organization! From this day forth, Spirit Crane Island and you are sworn enemies! Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, I will slaughter every last one of you!" the Second Island Master of Spirit Crane Island roared furiously. At that moment, all of Spirit Crane Island was engulfed by the rampaging spiritual power emanating from him. Everyone heard those words brimming with killing intent.
Unlike the hot-tempered Second Island Master, the Third Island Master of Spirit Crane Island had his brows tightly furrowed and an ugly expression on his face. He was not as driven by hatred as his second brother. Though he was also greatly enraged by what had happened today, he had not lost his head or reason. On the contrary, he had thought more deeply than anyone else.
Now, the blood feud with Akatsuki was beyond reconciliation, and Spirit Crane Island had been thrust into the eye of the storm on the Central River Continent because of this matter. The pursuit would certainly continue, but there was another extremely serious issue: what if an attack like today's happened again?
What he truly feared was not Akatsuki attacking them, but Akatsuki attacking the other members of Spirit Crane Island. They were a second-tier cultivation faction, not solitary figures with only Great Ascension cultivators. They had to consider the interests of the entire faction. That was their weakness, and Akatsuki had seized precisely upon it.
On the Central River Continent, grudges between high-level cultivators generally did not extend to the younger generation. Otherwise, if one side's Great Ascension cultivator came out today and killed several of the other side's juniors, then the other side's Great Ascension cultivators retaliated, and so on and so forth, the entire faction would likely be wiped out before