At those words, many Outer Sect immortals on Golden Turtle Island nodded.
The rule Wen Zhong had laid down was far too important.
The Investiture Great Calamity was already bound to the mortal world's change of dynasty.
If mortal military orders could freely draw in Interception Sect immortals, the sect would still be dragged into one war after another.
Now Wen Zhong himself had sealed that breach.
Mortal affairs belonged to the mortal world.
The immortal sect's karma belonged to the Three Steles.
With the boundary clear, half the roads to death were gone.
On the Three Steles, Wen Zhong's old death appeared.
[Wen Zhong dies at Juelong Ridge.]
The instant the words "Juelong Ridge" lit up, the divine eye in Wen Zhong's forehead snapped open.
A bolt of lightning struck.
The old words exploded on the spot.
A phantom of a shattered mountain ridge emerged, then was absorbed by the Three Steles.
[The old path through Juelong Ridge is severed.] [Wen Zhong establishes the Mortal Tribulation Envoy Register.] [Interception Sect immortals may not privately enter the killing tribulation because of mortal military orders.]
Wen Zhong bowed to the Three Steles.
Most of his old calamity qi receded, and the divine eye in his forehead closed again.
Tongtian looked at Wen Zhong and finally spoke.
"Good."
That single word made Wen Zhong tremble slightly.
He bowed again.
"This disciple will still shoulder Great Shang's affairs."
"But I will no longer drag my fellow Interception Sect disciples into death traps whose causes they do not even understand."
Zhao Xuan said:
"That is what you ought to shoulder."
The Ten Heavenly Lords stepped forward together next.
Qin Wan, Zhao Jiang, Dong Quan, Yuan Jiao, Golden Light Holy Mother, and the others stood in a row.
The formation banners