The battlefield was deathly silent. The slaughter underground continued, while the powerhouses of Motuo City watched Bai Yu and Moke stand toe-to-toe, their faces filled with shock.
Moke was the Realm Lord of the Capricorn Buddhist Realm. Whether by strength or seniority, Bai Yu should not even have been qualified to speak to him as an equal. Even if someone were to negotiate, it should have been Bu Fengqi or Cui Xinyu.
Yet now, Bai Yu had stuffed his words right back down his throat with a single sentence.
Lin Xianyin herself was a native cultivator of the Western Heaven Domain, and she had also come from the Esoteric Sect. If she had the ability to carve out a territory in the Western Heaven Domain, there was absolutely nothing wrong with that. After all, the strong devoured the weak—an unspoken rule everywhere.
If the old powers lacked the ability to guard what was theirs, then they had to accept the outcome.
It was precisely because of this that Upperstream had so many top Rogue Cultivators who possessed formidable strength yet had no faction behind them.
Hearing Bai Yu's words, Moke furrowed his brow. Murderous intent flashed in Mole and Mojue's eyes, and as their emotions shifted, even the temperature between heaven and earth turned frigid.
"Although Saintess Lin is from the Western Heaven Domain, she is still not qualified to inherit everything of the Esoteric Sect."
"Moreover, even if the sky were pierced open, she did not obtain these things through her own strength. If the Holy Heaven Cult and the Sword Burial Sect can invade the Western Heaven Domain merely by changing their rhetoric, then in the future, can the Western Heaven Domain also change its rhetoric and station itself in the Eastern Saint Domain?"
Mojue stepped forward with