With Yin Jiuyou's kneel, not a single stray sound remained anywhere on Dark Nether Peak.
The news spread faster than Xu Changqing had expected. Barely three days after Dark Nether Peak joined the Azurewood Sect, Blood-Iron Peak sent its response.
Xiao Sha, the peak master of Blood-Iron Peak and a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator, had always disdained beating around the bush. He sent over a Blood-Iron Token with only eight words attached: "Willing to serve as the vanguard, awaiting your command."
There were no negotiations and no conditions. It was clean and decisive.
Shortly afterward, Luo Qingyi, the peak master of Water Immortal Peak, came in person.
Water Immortal Peak's former peak master had been the Spirit Transformation Venerable Li Wudao, who was also the master of Xu Ping'an, Xu Changqing's second son. Later, he departed for the Grand Void Rift together with the others, and the position of peak master passed to Luo Qingyi.
This female cultivator, skilled in formations and illusion arts, had already reached Middle Spirit Transformation. She brought three scrolls of Water Immortal Peak's secret illusion formation diagrams as gifts and spoke with Xu Changqing for the time it took an incense stick to burn in the Azurewood Sect's main hall. Afterward, they settled the terms of allegiance.
Redflame Peak's former peak master had been Chao Jin, the sect master of the Dongting Immortal Sect. Later, Chao Jin handed the position of peak master to Yan Rong.
Yan Rong had a fiery temper. At first, he declared that Redflame Peak would rather break than bend and would never bow beneath another.
However, when Tuoba Ye, the peak master of Vajra Peak, personally paid him a visit and recounted every last detail of how Dark Nether Peak had been suppressed beneath a single cauldron, Yan Rong fell