After the experts of the Moonlight Sect and the Blazing Sun Sect returned to their sects, neither side made any moves. Everyone knew, however, that this was merely the calm before the storm. Once it broke, there would be no stopping it.
Both great sects had suffered devastating losses. Worse still, nearly all their senior members were injured, many of them seriously. The very nature of the Blazing Sun Sect's spiritual power countered the Moonlight Sect's. How could the Moonlight Sect have escaped unscathed from that final, desperate struggle? With their senior members injured and few top experts available, the two sects were vulnerable-and they had no shortage of other enemies.
The Celestial Star Sect lurked beside the Moonlight Sect, eyeing it like a tiger watching its prey. Among the top-tier sects, the Radiant Hao Sect and the Phoenix-Catching Faction were still present as well. Those two sects usually kept a low profile, but no one knew what they might do.
They only kept a low profile because the Moonlight Sect and the Blazing Sun Sect were too overbearing. Every great sect wanted to take another step forward. As for the Blood God Sect, although it was on the verge of falling out of the ranks of the top-tier sects, its foundations and strength remained formidable. Few people knew just how powerful its holy maiden was, either.
The strongest of the other super-first-rate forces were also watching those above them, ready to pounce at any moment. Quite a few of those sects had legacies even older than those of the Blazing Sun Sect and the Moonlight Sect.
"Why hasn't he returned yet? Could something really have happened to the ancestor?" Inside the Moonlight Sect, the elders sat in the great hall. The sect master's face was filled with anxiety, his