"Phew, it's finally resolved."
Watching Ice Peak Progenitor and the others leave, Yuan also let out a sigh of relief.
Whether because of their past friendship or their current strength, Yuan did not want a full-scale war to erupt with the Ice Peak Faction.
The Innate Primal Chaos Lifeform Faction needed time to recover and grow, and the Cultivator Faction needed the same.
Matters concerning the new Lords, repairing the occupied World Clusters, maintaining the territory, and so on... There was no shortage of things to handle.
"Yuan, I'm sorry for putting you and Ice Peak Progenitor in such a situation." Lord Jin came to Yuan's side.
"Haha, the moment they recklessly occupied our territory, they had already made their choice." Yuan shook his head. He was merely feeling somewhat emotional.
Although he had once been very close to Ice Peak Progenitor, close enough to call them friends who would die for one another, both sides had ultimately chosen their own factions.
Given Ice Peak Progenitor's prestige and influence within its faction, how could it possibly have been unable to restrain those Progenitors from seizing the Cultivators' World Clusters? The entire faction was even named after it.
In the end, it had simply allowed it to happen. It believed the demands of its own faction should take priority, and it had never taken the Cultivators seriously.
After everything that had happened, Yuan had long seen through it. Ice Peak Progenitor merely had a good relationship with him; it still did not regard those weaker Cultivators as living beings. At its core, it was still one of the Innate Primal Chaos Lifeforms.
They simply walked different paths and could not work together.
If that mindset did not change, then no matter how close the two of them were, their relationship would