The response from the other side had been casual, but You Huang could not relax in the slightest.
Because he knew the current state of the person on the other end—his eldest brother, You Can, Lord of Flying Soul City.
At the end of the last tribulation, Shangqing Sect and the demon sects had been locked in battle, flames raging to the heavens, when chaos erupted across the northern lands and every sect of the Xiyu Alliance was swept into it.
At the time, though Flying Soul City was one of the heavenly-tier sects, its true strength still fell short of Siming Sect's. At least, that had been the case before Siming Sect's earth immortal, who guarded the sect, perished in the Great Tribulation.
One need only look at how, after the Great Tribulation, Siming Sect had still firmly filled the void left by Shangqing Sect's destruction despite losing its earth immortal.
Flying Soul City had entered the heavenly tier largely because the Xiyu Alliance required a balance, and it had taken Siming Sect's place.
Back then, the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth and the demon tribulation had arisen together, almost an exact replay of the present day. Moreover, the negative forces accumulated over more than three thousand years had erupted all at once, making it even fiercer.
During the Great Tribulation, Flying Soul City lost its right to Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing. Its reserve of more than ten Calamity Law Grandmasters was directly cut in half, and its strength suffered grievously.
Under such circumstances, You Can, who had always followed the path of deep accumulation and sudden eruption, believed he had to shoulder the responsibility of a city lord. He decisively forced his way through the Four-Nine Tribulation, rose against the current, and achieved the rank of earth immortal