Outside Abyssal Sky City on the Wind Origin Continent of the Spirit Realm, within the alliance hall led by the Helian Merchant Alliance, the Blood Bone Sect and quite a few factions from the Blood Sky Continent found themselves in an especially awkward position!
Xiao Ming, Madame Ten Thousand Flowers, Daoist Qingping, and other Mahayana cultivators from the Blood Sky Continent had all come—but they were not here to support them. They had come to support the human and demon races.
"Fellow Daoist Ming Zun, it seems you never fully explained that Immortal Lord from the Immortal Realm to us?"
The Jiatun Clan's First Grand Elder of the Wind Origin Continent, his face livid, questioned Ming Zun of the Helian Merchant Alliance, who sat in the seat of honor.
Facing the Jiatun Clan's First Grand Elder's questioning, Ming Zun of the Helian Merchant Alliance seemed to have anticipated it. He swept his gaze over the dozen or so peak Mahayana cultivators in the hall and asked calmly.
"Even if I had told you, would you fellow Daoists really not have been tempted by the human and demon races' foremost Mystic Heaven treasure? Would you truly not have wanted the opportunity that allowed the human and demon races to produce so many Mahayana cultivators?"
"But is an Immortal Lord from the Immortal Realm someone we can contend with? He helped the human and demon races gain so many Mahayana cultivators. The Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable clearly intends to make the human and demon races the Spirit Realm's first and second greatest races. We are merely stepping stones beneath their feet."
The Jiatun Clan's First Grand Elder's expression grew even uglier, and regret filled his heart. He had nearly severely wounded—or even killed—a Mahayana cultivator of the human race.
That was no