Zhou Xuanshan smiled. "No need for thanks, no need for thanks. I was merely the matchmaker. Your sect obtained so many invested Fate Mountains entirely through your own abilities."
The many Fate Arts Masters changed color in shock. Zhou Xuanshan had always been upright. Though the Mountain Fate Sect was not hostile to the Heaven's Mandate Sect, it had always leaned toward the various Fate Sects. None had expected him to defect.
"Oh, right..." Zhou Xuanshan said, as if he had just remembered. "Sect Master Zong, do you know from whose hands I received those invested Mountain Gods?"
"Who?" Zong Huatian asked.
"The man beneath the mountains."
At the center of the mountains filling the sky, beneath the hundred rivers drifting like clouds, Li Qingxian stood alone before Heaven Marrow Academy.
"Absurd!" Zong Huatian's eyelid twitched as he pointed at Li Qingxian and chanted a string of incantations.
"Heaven's Mandate Mountain Range, Fate Suppression... Fate Confinement... Fate Division... Fate Transformation... and in the end, Fate Seizure!"
As soon as the Twelve Fate-Fixing Divine Incantations emerged, the disciples of the Heaven's Mandate Sect secretly let out breaths of relief.
It was over...
Hm?
Zong Huatian's Divine Incantation erupted with overwhelming force, yet the Heaven's Mandate Mountain Range did not stir in the slightest. The Fate-Measure White River rose and fell gently, without any change.
"How could this be? You..."
Behind Li Qingxian, five hazy figures appeared, clad respectively in azure, crimson, white, black, and yellow immortal robes.
Even though they had been prepared, a chill still swept across the backs of the Heaven's Mandate Sect members' necks.
Those were unmistakably the five colossal gods who had once looked down upon the mortal world.
They remembered someone saying that those five deities were the Five-Directional Mountain Gods. Then...
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