Innate Spirit Treasure

What else could Long Xuan say? He could only nod.

He groaned inwardly. He had wanted to keep coasting, yet the moment he arrived, they assigned him the most troublesome opponent and even gave him a mandatory order. He could not avoid fighting even if he wanted to.

It was worth mentioning that during large-scale wars, the Gu World had an unspoken rule: those of higher realms could not attack those of lower realms unless it was in self-defense or they had a legitimate reason.

In other words, Gu Kings and Spiritual Sea Stage Gu cultivators could not lower themselves to slaughter the other side's geniuses. However, there was no chasm-like gap between the Marrow Cleansing Stage and the Spirit Gathering Stage, so they were not subject to this restriction.

This had been an unwritten rule since ancient times. No one dared violate it, or they would open Pandora's box. The side that broke the rule would inevitably suffer a backlash.

How could a Gu King possibly fail when personally acting to kill a genius?

Once this precedent was set, not a single genius from any clan could hope to survive. In the end, both sides would only suffer mutual ruin. A clan whose generation of geniuses had been wiped out might never recover, declining into a minor clan from then on.

No one could bear such consequences. Thus, in the Gu World, every war was general against general, king against king, cannon fodder against cannon fodder.

It was not as if no one had ever broken the rules, but their endings had all been exceedingly miserable. Not only were their geniuses slaughtered, even every clansman, including mortal relatives by blood, was massacred without restraint by Gu Kings until only a lone commander remained.

Therefore, Long Qian could not personally