Within the array's central hub, after notifying Li Fuyuan, the Celestial Xia Tingzhi took their seats at their respective array positions. Every one of them wore a grave expression, as though they were about to face a great battle.
In truth, this was no less demanding than a real battle, for not the slightest error could be made in this deployment. If Origin Xia detected it or launched an attack ahead of time, the entire sequence could be thrown into disarray.
Fortunately, everything had proceeded according to their expectations thus far.
Wu Tingzhi swept his gaze around. Seeing that all parties were properly prepared, and that cultivators from every side had taken their prearranged positions beneath the Tingzhi, he nodded inwardly. This time, although they had notified the various Dao lineages, they had not disclosed the specific plan. Those lineages believed this to be merely an ordinary offensive.
At this moment, he raised a hand. At the same instant, the auras of Celestial Xia's various treasures that stabilized the Dao began to surge.
After the previous several feints, Origin Xia had already concluded that Celestial Xia was searching for an opportunity to attack. Seeing movement among the treasures that stabilized the Dao, they responded tit for tat, spiritual radiance from their own treasures flickering throughout the world-domain.
Yet for the moment, they could not imagine that what Celestial Xia truly needed was for them not to launch an attack on their own initiative.
The best defense was offense. But with chaotic cultivators as an unpredictable variable, even an attack could not force the other side to shrink back. Moreover, the actions of chaotic cultivators in the past had plainly never concerned themselves with Celestial Xia's circumstances. Thus, before knowing what the chaotic cultivator who possessed an inheritance intended to do,