Wei Tingzhi left the Origin Capital Sect and returned to the Upper Layer without stopping. Upon learning of his return, the various Tingzhi projected their incarnate shadows into the council hall.
Seeing that, aside from Feng Tingzhi, who was away on a mission, all the Tingzhi had arrived, the First Seat Daoist asked Wei Tingzhi to recount the details of this matter.
Wei Tingzhi informed them of the entire course of events in detail and also explained the conditions proposed by the Origin Capital Sect. Yet those conditions were almost immediately rejected by every Tingzhi.
Dai Tingzhi said, "The Origin Capital lineage wishes to imitate Nether City."
Everyone nodded.
That was most likely exactly the case.
It was not without precedent for a sect or power to voluntarily break away from Celestial Xia. Nether City was one such example.
Yet Celestial Xia had never acknowledged Nether City, even to this day.
Moreover, Nether City was not a sect to begin with, and it had originally been located in the Outer Layer. At the time, none of the Inner Layer's people had suffered losses, so the harm caused had not been great.
But if Origin Capital truly left Celestial Xia, it would still remain within the Inner Layer.
They could claim that the two sides would have nothing to do with one another afterward, but who could guarantee that the Origin Capital lineage would not open its gates and allow Outer Layer cultivators inside? That would be tantamount to tearing apart the defenses of the Twenty-Eight Mansions in the Outer Layer at a stroke. This was absolutely intolerable.
Even setting that aside, Celestial Xia could not possibly set a precedent for reviving the old sect system. That would undoubtedly be digging up its own foundations.
Everyone present saw it clearly. The