"Sect Master, you can't go. Spirit Hall is clearly trying to humiliate you," Chen Xin said.
Gu Rong also said, "This old man can use his spatial ability to transfer everyone in the sect elsewhere. We can rebuild the sect and continue living in seclusion. The world is so vast—I refuse to believe Spirit Hall can find us."
Facing the two elders' suggestions, Ning Fengzhi only pondered for a moment before saying, "Let's observe the situation on the continent a little longer and see whether there is a turning point."
Meanwhile, Spirit Hall had also dispatched envoys to several aristocratic families and sects.
Some of those families and sects ultimately chose to go to Spirit City and plead guilty, while others made the same plan as Gu Rong, choosing to relocate their sects and flee deep into the mountains and forests.
Yet no matter where they fled, Spirit Hall would simply rain down Meteor Volcanoes, leaving not even chickens or dogs alive.
The destruction of those families and sects set a fine example for the other sects on the continent that wanted to keep their heads down.
Though personal honor and disgrace were important, they could never outweigh the survival of one's family.
After receiving this information, Ning Fengzhi abandoned the idea of fleeing far away.
He changed into plain clothes, carried thorny branches on his back, and assumed the posture of one calmly heading to his death as he made his way to Spirit Hall.
Before leaving, he also settled the arrangements for what came after.
A month and a half later, Qian Xunyi held a triumphal ceremony. Spirit Hall gathered the wealth of the world and used it to hold the Holy Land Ceremony, constructing a Triumphal Gate and carving historical scenes from the conquest of