In a corner of the Thunder Marsh Region, rosy clouds filled the sky as an envoy of the Immortal Artifact Sect descended.
At that moment, the Void Refining cultivators of the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign and Blood Lake Bone Mountain did not go to pay their respects. Instead, they respectfully sent disciples to welcome the envoy and attend to him.
Swamp Demon City also sent a delegation led by numerous Spirit Transformation cultivators.
The envoy had only just crossed the boundary wall and was gravely injured. Any Void Refining cultivator who approached him would immediately be deemed malicious and in rebellion.
If the two great sovereign sects did not want to rebel right now, they would do nothing that might invite misunderstanding.
"I wonder how strong the Immortal Artifact Sect's envoy is..."
Jiang Ding gazed toward the distant sky awash with rosy clouds and murmured to himself.
By ordinary reasoning, a cultivator assigned this sort of odd job could not be among the Immortal Artifact Sect's top Void Refining cultivators. He would not be a Void Refining prodigy. Such vital fighting strength would never be wasted on routine administrative work, however rich the pickings.
Swamp True Venerable, a Rogue Cultivator known for his lawlessness, had also thought this question through carefully.
He had concluded that the Immortal Artifact Sect's envoy had to be immensely powerful and possess some trump card beyond the usual bounds to serve as a deterrent. Otherwise, there was no way to keep the many sovereign sects respectful and make them hand over more than eighty percent of their tribute every thousand years.
Cutting off a man's road to wealth was like killing his parents.
And in the cultivation world, wealth was directly bound up with strength, lifespan, dreams, the Great Dao, and everything else.