Li Chengyi received his father's voice transmission and hurried to the main peak.
Over the years, he and Gu Huai'an had usually found time to visit their father in the mountains together. It was rare for their father to summon him, and he wondered whether something serious had happened.
Yet when he saw the Ten Directions Token in his hand, he still could not help looking slightly stunned.
"Father, why would the Primordial Divine Sect be willing to hand this over?" Li Chengyi asked.
Gu Yuanqing chuckled. "I merely made a trade."
"A trade?" Li Chengyi looked at Gu Yuanqing.
Gu Yuanqing waved a hand and smiled. "Someone from the Guixu Alliance intended to enter the God Ruins, so I helped stop him. This was part of the price Wei Zhao paid."
"The Guixu Alliance came again?" Li Chengyi's expression changed slightly. His father might look perfectly unruffled, but he knew this could not have been so simple.
Back then, Gu Yuanqing had acted several times to make Wei Zhao surrender the Ten Directions Token, yet Wei Zhao had preferred to hide under Heavenly Punishment for centuries rather than relent.
Nor would an attack by the Guixu Alliance have been some minor skirmish. Otherwise, Wei Zhao would never have agreed to pay such a price.
With the Qian Yuan Realm's current prestige, obtaining the Ten Directions Token meant they could unite the entire Boundary Domain's power. Their authority would henceforth be legitimate, and no one in the Exquisite Realm Domain could stand against them.
It also meant that the Primordial Divine Sect had completely relinquished the supremacy it had held since ancient times.
Gu Yuanqing said, "It was bound to happen sooner or later. As long as the struggle between the Guixu Alliance, the Divine Court, and the others remains