"Barbarians of the lower realm! You truly know nothing of proper manners!"
Divine Firmament Heavenly Lord and Blood Stiff Celestial Lord flew into a rage and swept their sleeves as they left. They no longer entertained any hope of using these three native Spirit Transformation cultivators as cannon fodder.
Celestial Lord Shuo Yang looked bitter.
But he did not dare complain to Ming Guangzi. Besides, the three of them had achieved their goal, crude as their methods had been.
The Heavenly Lords had exchanged all this through divine sense. Though it seemed lengthy, they had conveyed a vast amount of information in an instant.
The azure-robed youth and the Thunder Division's heavenly soldiers and generals still faced off against the demonic ghosts of Blood Lake.
"Fellow Daoist Tu Shan."
"I won't ask which upper-realm sect you hail from. That is indeed a secret, not something easily shared."
Divine Firmament Heavenly Lord smiled warmly. "Fellow Daoist, do you know where the 'True Sovereign' in our sect's name, Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign, comes from? What history lies behind it?"
"Oh? What history?"
Jiang Ding asked curiously.
In an instant, the expressions of Divine Firmament Heavenly Lord and Blood Stiff Celestial Lord froze.
They exchanged a glance and confirmed something.
"It seems you truly don't know."
"That's understandable. It isn't a secret, so I'll tell you."
Divine Firmament Heavenly Lord's smile grew even kinder. "Three hundred and ninety thousand years ago, after the Immortal Order survived a calamity, it established ranks for sects to bring order to the world. The many Immortal Order powers reached a consensus and set the ranks of Immortal Order, Dao Sect, True Sovereign... and so forth. Sects great and small were forbidden to defy them, and none dared disobey."
"For instance, the actual name of