The Best Strategic Window Had Arrived

"You're starting this war early for your own selfish interests! You'll be the death of the Immortal Sect!"

"How can you bear to do it?"

Amid killing intent that filled the hall, under the gaze of countless aging Nascent Soul True Lords, True Lord Boming roared.

Jiang Ding fell into thought.

True Lord Boming was also an elderly Nascent Soul Cultivator. He, too, desperately wanted a chance to reach Spirit Transformation. That was life's fierce instinct to keep living.

Yet now, he was trying to stop the war from coming early.

"Boming!"

"Enough of your honeyed words and mouse-eyed shortsightedness!"

True Lord Dinghai snorted. "Our seniors must have considered everything you've raised. Since they've approved the war, this must be the best time to begin it. Who are you, a mere Nascent Soul Cultivator, to make such a racket?"

"Exactly!"

"True Lord Boming has had too much contact with the Beyond-Realm Immortal Sects. He's let them frighten him without even realizing it. How foolish can he be?"

The True Lords around them chimed in. They spoke of relations between realms, the diplomatic department's natural tendency toward appeasement, and their contempt for the humanities. Arguments and explanations piled up until they might as well have been detailed academic papers, one after another.

"Enough of that irrelevant talk!"

"I have one question. Do any of you dare answer it?"

True Lord Boming glared at the noisy Nascent Soul True Lords below and snorted. "If the Immortal Sect is developing faster than the Eight Great Immortal Sects, why don't we do everything we can to delay the war and gain the greatest possible advantage?!"

Silence fell.

"Things can't always go as we wish..."

"Waiting too long has its drawbacks..."

True Lord Dinghai and the others looked left and spoke right, circling around his