Opening a Seal Script Sea Three Thousand Li Wide (Two-in-One)

No cultivator from the Moral Immortal Sect spoke up.

That left the Divine Firmament Dao Sect the undisputed second-in-command of Central Province, and indeed of the entire Mystic Gate.

At that moment,

the words of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's Clear Cosmos Grand Script Dao Lord could, in a sense, stand as the Mystic Gate's final verdict on this momentous affair!

The Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect was no longer part of the Mystic Gate!

Everything Cult Leader Liu had done was entirely justified!

The instant those words rolled across the heavens and earth,

the Many Treasures Artifact Sect's Bright Warmth River-Aiding Dao Lord was the first to heave a sharp sigh of relief. Even as he began offering polite remarks, he turned and made to cross the sky.

"I misunderstood Cult Leader Liu before!"

"My sincere congratulations to Cult Leader Liu on proving his Dao as Mysteries Dao Lord Myriad Laws Elucidating!"

"Congratulations on the Demon Refining Mystic Sect's return to prominence in our Central Province Mystic Gate!"

"Watching Mysteries Dao Lord Myriad Laws Elucidating's battle has given this old man much to reflect on. I must enter seclusion to contemplate it. Farewell—farewell—"

The last syllables were still echoing between heaven and earth

when, beneath Zhang Qiwei's cold gaze, Bright Warmth River-Aiding Dao Lord transformed into a streak of multicolored treasure-light and entered the shelter of the Many Treasures Artifact Sect's Fortune Cloud.

Elsewhere,

Fivefold Splendor Cinnabar Scenery Dao Lord, whose position in Central Province was rather isolated, stared in distracted melancholy at the true form of the Medicine King Cauldron that Liu Dongqing had condensed from Dharma-Power Divine Radiance upon the suspended screen.

She looked at the vast mass of vine roots burrowing into the dying old Daoist Hechu's very essence, body and soul.

Then she looked again at