Time passed quickly aboard the flying boat—at least, it did for Zhang Tie.
Divine Lord Jianmu, Treasure Flame Divine Lord, True Lord Deyang, and Bai Runshan were all sensible people. While waiting for members of their respective sects to arrive, none of them came to disturb Zhang Tie over the next few days. Each cultivated aboard his own flying boat, and whenever something came up, they mostly just contacted Zhang Tie through their remote-sensing communication rings.
Over those few days, everything that had happened within the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven spread across the world, stirring up countless waves and making Great Xia's already unsettled situation even more strange and unpredictable.
During these days, even from the distant Southern Frontier, one only had to browse the Mountain of Light to discover that the entire Mountain of Light had already erupted into a boiling uproar.
The bloody case of the Great Wilderness Sect's destruction had been dragged out once more, becoming the focus of heated discussion throughout Great Xia.
Although both the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion published articles on the Mountain of Light to "refute the rumors," tales of the two great sects joining forces to bathe the Great Wilderness Sect in blood and wipe it out had already spread throughout the land. Not only Knights—even ordinary people of the martial world knew of it. This subjected the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion, who had always styled themselves as righteous sects of Great Xia, to unprecedented suspicion and condemnation. Both sects were dragged into a deep vortex, left with their heads scorched and their faces grimy.
Everyone questioning and condemning the Taiyi Mystical Sect had the same reasoning—if the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion could wipe out another major sect within Great Xia at will, without