Once the several Grand Councilors had settled the matter, no one raised any further objections. They decided to proceed according to this plan.
Though they had discussed matters at length, they knew time was of the essence. Most of their exchange had been through thought, so in truth, it had taken only a few sentences.
A little over ten breaths later, golden vessels shot forth like meteors, carving streaks of gold through the void as they flew from within the Origin Xia Domain straight toward the rift.
After entering Origin Xia's inner domain, Dou Zhen had fled in every direction. Yet strangely, he had encountered no great obstruction along the way. The resistance was pitifully weak, and he sensed no threat whatsoever. It was as if they were simply allowing him to act without restraint.
When he saw the golden vessels heading toward the rift, he realized Origin Xia was likely going to contend for the treasure that suppressed the Dao. After some thought, he did not change his strategy. Instead, his escaping light turned toward one of the worlds. At the same time, as he traveled onward, he used the Black Mirror's power to draw ceaseless streams of chaotic qi into the Origin Xia Void Domain.
Since Origin Xia had yielded this place to him, he naturally would not stand on ceremony.
On Celestial Xia's side, Wu Tingzhi personally held the array. He dispatched every Daoist Qiuquan he could send out. In order to reclaim the treasure that suppressed the Dao, all other matters had been relegated to secondary importance.
However, it was still too early to say how this battle would end. With Dou Zhen's appearance, they had originally recovered lost ground in the contest over the treasure that suppressed the Dao.
But he discovered that, this time,