A month later, after stopping and starting all along the way, Lin Tingzhi finally arrived at Origin Summit under the guidance of those dispatched by Origin Upper Hall and joined up with Zhang Yu.
However, their party had brought along quite a few cultivators from the Myriad Ways. By Origin Upper Hall's rules, no one without a talismanic edict could enter Origin Summit, so they simply moored their flying vessel outside while he himself came to Origin Summit to see Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu was already preparing to return to Celestial Xia, and it was inconvenient to act and speak within Origin Upper Hall. Thus, he had long since descended from Origin Upper Hall and taken up residence once more in the temple estate originally located on the Eastern Origin Heaven Continent.
This spared Lin Tingzhi the need to cross the nebula again, and he came directly to this temple estate.
After the two met, he recounted the course of this journey in coded language and said, "Zhang Tingzhi, after Lin visited the Myriad Ways, all these people hoped that the delegation could bring them to Celestial Xia, so that they might earn merit in the coming battles.
"Seeing that Origin Xia was rife with internal disputes and had more than one voice, Lin feared that bluntly refusing them would instead unite them against us. Thus, I took it upon myself to bring those people along."
He had also discovered that Origin Xia was an exceedingly contradictory and fragmented place. Most of its strength was spent on internal conflicts—not only the conflict between the Myriad Ways and Origin Upper Hall, but also the rivalries between Way factions.
While within Origin Xia's territory, if he accepted no one at all, the other side would surely find every possible way to force