Chu Kingdom, atop Heavenly Corpse Mountain of the Heavenly Corpse Sect.
A vast, dark, ancient hall stood in silence. Above it, two masses of bluish-white bone flame still burned fiercely, giving off eerie sounds. Seen from afar, they made the entire hall look even more like some gigantic savage beast from the wilds.
At this moment, inside the hall, more than a dozen Nascent Souls had gathered. If Ye Jingcheng were here, he would certainly have recognized among them Green River True Lord of the Green River Sect, True Lord Yuanze of the Heavenly Water Sect, most of the other Nascent Souls of the Four Sects of Qilu, and Heavenly Corpse True Lord of the Heavenly Corpse Sect.
All their gazes were fixed on Sacred Cloud True Lord and Crimson Blood True Lord in the middle.
After all, those two were Penglai's superior envoys, and they had to obey their orders.
For them, they actually did not want to stop White Medicine True Lord from breaking through.
Whether he succeeded or failed, there was not much benefit in it for them.
They might even lose their lives because of it. Struggles over the Great Dao had always been cruel to the extreme.
Sometimes, they even felt the sorrow of the fox when the rabbit died.
Being in the Nascent Soul Realm, they asked themselves honestly: if they broke through to Spirit Transformation, would Penglai agree to it, and even protect them?
Most likely, they would have to guard against everything just like Medicine King Valley, treading on eggshells, and perhaps, in the end, because of the Penglai Sect, still come away with an empty basket.
Sometimes, they could not bear to think too deeply about the answer.
They only knew that the Eight Desolations Sect had fallen in exactly this