Xiao Sen was right beneath the purple stone with purple-gold radiance swirling around him, some of it even seeping inside, which made Yun Xing sigh inwardly. Such a manifestation was already definitive proof that the sect master's "golden words and imperial decrees" had indeed become entangled in the karma of the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram, and no matter how the situation changed in the future, this backlash was destined to be unavoidable.
Things having reached this point, Yun Xing could only pray that his master possessed boundless divine powers to maintain the foundation of the Daoist base without causing consequences too difficult to clean up.
Xiao Sen, however, was not too concerned about the increase or decrease of his own karma. He raised his head to gaze at the purple stone and praised:
"The Violet Pole Contention—such a wondrous phenomenon only appeared back then when the Rakshasa Ghost King crossed realms and clashed with and compromised with the Sorcerer God during that kalpa. Now that her vacant position awaits, more than one person has ambitions for it hereafter, and to say 'the rise of the Divine Path begins from this' is no exaggeration."
The Violet Pole Contention...
Yun Xing was well-read in a myriad of books, naturally knowing what this term represented. Theoretically speaking, vast though the true realm was, positions of honor and prominent duties meant that even two divine lords residing in the righteous position were considered too many. Back then, when the Rakshasa Ghost King crossed over from the Blood Prison Ghost Manor, she naturally also had a conflict with the Sorcerer God who still occupied the position.
However, this kind of conflict was not a matter of the Sorcerer Sect and the Rakshasa Sect fighting in pitch-black darkness, but rather on a more covert level. At