At the border of the Cultivator Territory, inside a towering palace!
Yuan swept his gaze over the twelve Immortal and Indestructible beings present and said coldly, "Not a single World Cluster belonging to our Cultivator Faction may be kept."
"If you insist on forcibly occupying them, then we can only meet on the battlefield."
After dealing with the other factions that had occupied territory, Yuan had also approached the Ice Peak Faction and demanded the return of the occupied lands.
The result was obvious. Although some within the Ice Peak Faction did not wish to oppose the Cultivator Faction over territory, the progenitors who had invaded the Cultivator Territory and coveted the resources within those World Clusters were adamantly unwilling to return them.
This faction held the dominant position in the negotiations.
Faced with pressure from the Cultivator Faction, the Ice Peak Faction was divided into three camps.
One camp refused to yield under any circumstances. After taking so many resources, they could not possibly hand over what they had seized.
Another group was neutral. They felt that occupying several dozen World Clusters was no great matter, but they also considered the unity and prestige of the entire Ice Peak Faction.
If they yielded simply because the Cultivator Faction pressured them, how could the Ice Peak Faction continue to exist? Although they had the precedent of the Innate Primal Chaos Lifeform Faction before them, and perhaps no one would say anything, it would still be humiliating.
As for the final group, they could not be called anti-war. They simply did not wish to clash with the Cultivator Faction over such a small matter of territory.
At most, this group would refrain from acting if war broke out. During the negotiations, they were equally too lazy to concern themselves with such