The Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign.
The sect stood atop a thunder-wreathed mountain. Dark clouds swirled around its slopes year-round, amid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder. A high-grade sixth-rank spiritual vein lay hidden within, making it an ideal place for cultivators of lightning arts.
Today, with the arrival of the Immortal Artifact Sect's envoy, the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign cast off the gloom and anxiety of nearly a thousand years of war. Lanterns and decorations went up, and the whole sect burst into celebration.
The Immortal Order's envoy had chosen the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign to host a banquet for True Venerables from every quarter. Nothing like it had ever happened before!
It meant the Immortal Artifact Sect stood firmly behind the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sovereign.
So what if Blood Lake Bone Mountain was somewhat stronger? Would they dare defy the Immortal Order's authority?
In the hearts of many Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign disciples, this war, which had dragged on for thousands of years and claimed countless disciples' lives, was finally about to end. They would no longer have to live with death looming over them at every moment.
A festive air filled the entire Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign.
At the mountain's summit, within its most solemn Thunder Palace, the Immortal Artifact Sect's envoy, Mountain-Cutting True Venerable, sat in the seat of honor. The Void Refining cultivators of Blood Lake Bone Mountain and the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign paid their respects, then sat bolt upright, not daring the slightest breach of courtesy before the Immortal Order's envoy.
"Fellow Daoist Blood Lake, the fighting must stop now."
"There must be no further conflict."
Mountain-Cutting True Venerable said gravely, "For the next eight hundred years, the Thunderflame