But the more they made such a grand show of force, the more it revealed their weakness! Fairy Yunqing had been contradicted, yet she showed no anger. Smiling, she said, "The path to enlightenment was difficult for all of us. Who knew how many hardships and perils we had endured?"
The True Lords of the Hall of All Immortals nodded. Everyone seated there had survived the last great war against the Purple Dusk Demon. They were the best of the best.
"So these juniors naturally have no shortcut to reach the heavens in a single step.
"Heaven and Earth are unfeeling and treat all things as straw dogs. If they will not risk ten thousand deaths for our Heaven and Earth and render great service, how could they so easily ascend to the throne of Heavenly Lord?
"There is little point in saying more. Let us watch these youngsters stir up clouds and rain!" Fairy Yunqing said with a smile.
"Well said!" The True Lords nodded again and again.
From beginning to end, only six of the True Lords had spoken. The other six had not said a word, sitting like clay statues in a temple.
The six who spoke saw nothing strange about it...
Until, at last, a Divine Lord from the Heavenly Court suddenly said, "I hear the Yin-Yang Netherworld Sacred Coin is not in the Holy Marshal's hands... Someone claims to have seen it in the Wilds..."
At those words, the other eleven True Immortals were shaken.
That was impossible, surely? If the Yin-Yang Netherworld Sacred Coin was not in the Holy Marshal's hands, how could he deploy the complete Mysterious Yin Seven Fiends Heavenly Curtain Formation?
Without the Mysterious Yin Seven Fiends Heavenly Curtain Formation, what did they have to fear?
They would have sent troops