To Liu Dongqing and the cultivators here,
the utmost priority was the agreement concerning the alliance oath. The oath-taking process itself, by contrast, seemed wholly insignificant to them.
Yet beneath the arrangements of heritage and pomp laid out by the various sacred lands, great sects, and orthodox schools,
and under the direction of two Spirit Transformation Dao Lords, one old and one young, descended from the Confucian lineage of the Moral Immortal Sect,
the preparations for a Zhaijiao Ritual, though terribly rushed in time, were exceptionally grand. Down to the tiniest detail, there was not the slightest trace of perfunctory work.
It could well be called the most magnificent and stately Zhaijiao Ritual ever recorded in this entire Era of Dao Strife.
But the more so it was,
the more it struck at the hearts and slaughtered the souls of those Spirit Transformation Dao Lords whom Dao Lord Shuhua Zhaosheng had secretly gathered within the Supreme Origin Immortal Sect!
Only at this moment,
that unbearable gaze of Liu Dongqing's no longer turned toward the Southern Border, toward the Supreme Origin Immortal Sect.
Having taken part in the entire alliance-making and oath-swearing Zhaijiao Ritual, Liu Dongqing no longer cared about those grudges whose victory and defeat had already been settled. What concerned him was the destination of this journey—the Ancient God Dao Domain Fragment itself.
And in the matter of the Sumeru Passage of the Ancient God Dao Domain Fragment appearing in the world,
this Zhaijiao Ritual in which they had forged their alliance and sworn their oaths had, to some extent, played a positive role as well.
Perhaps because of the strong connection on the level of fate and fortune,
almost the instant the cultivators successively swore their oaths, linking every precedent Liu Dongqing had previously laid down, without the