This arrangement by the Two Halls involved no delay whatsoever. If Ling Lingzi performed well enough, they could only cooperate from the side. But if Ling Lingzi performed poorly, then they could not be blamed for seizing the authority of the main assault.
Even if this were spoken of openly, they would have occupied the moral high ground first. In the end, it still came down to whose abilities were superior.
Just as the Two Halls had originally held the authority for external attacks and killings, yet after their previous failures, they had been forced to yield to the Upper Three Worlds. But now it had been proven that even after replacing them with people from the Upper Three Worlds, there had been no great improvement. If they proved even more inadequate, then the authority would naturally return to the Two Halls.
Councilor Xiang took a look around. Because too many Perfected Ones from the Two Halls had fallen in the earlier battles, there were far fewer cultivators accomplished in Dao methods than before. They could only draw a few replacements from those councilors who had remained in secluded cultivation and voluntarily stepped down, merely to replenish their strength.
For even in Origin Xia, the Realm of Perfection was equally difficult to attain. The people they had now had been accumulated over who knew how many years. Losing even one meant consuming Origin Xia's foundations.
After the Two Halls had each completed their arrangements, the councilors all stepped onto an enormous bulwark and took their respective positions. Then, toward Celestial Xia, they activated the two treasures that suppressed the Dao, the "Heaven-Bearing Diagram" and "Myriad Immortals' Ferry," attempting to reopen the original passage between the two realms.
The moment Origin Xia made a move, Chen Shouzhi immediately detected it. This