Immortal Metal-Extinguishing Sword

Hei Louxi, Blood-Hand Demon Li Tu, Steel Bone Vajra, and the others watched Bloodflow Cloud solemnly as he ascended the high platform to offer sacrifices to Heaven. Many barely dared to breathe.

"Can he succeed?" Hei Louxi asked softly.

"Since ancient records, the Royal Court War could only be initiated by direct descendants of the twenty-eight clans offering sacrifices to Heaven. Only direct descendants could be granted official posts of commander of ten thousand or above, and after victory, receive a Royal Court Token."

"Outsiders who rashly bore these things would immediately suffer backlash from dragon qi, their souls torn apart until they died."

Her heart was uneasy.

Even the Hei Clan collateral branch's original plan had merely been to put forth a direct descendant as a puppet, or adopt a gifted direct-descendant child and raise them from a young age, rather than stepping forward themselves.

No one dared violate the strict order laid down by that invincible ancestor long ago.

Throughout history, there had been no lack of unwilling collateral descendants who had tried to defy Heaven through the Royal Court War and stake everything on one desperate gamble. All had died, body and soul extinguished, at the instant they sacrificed to Heaven. There had never been an exception.

"Perhaps he will. Perhaps he will not." Blood-Hand Demon Li Tu shook his head and said flatly, "This is the only path. For us independent cultivators, this is the only path. There is no other."

"At least the Great Sun Sword Sect and the Great Sun Sect each succeeded after trying dozens, even hundreds of times and losing many Golden Core cultivators. They used the faint trace of ancestral blood in their bodies to deceive the restriction left behind by that invincible powerhouse."

"Perhaps it can succeed."

"After all, ten