Immortal-Slaying Cannons and Immortal-Slaying Cannons were set up around Thunder City, their dark muzzles pointing outward, radiating an intimidating aura.
Vast quantities of spirit stones were loaded into the Defensive Formation at the center of Thunder City. A Protective Barrier shot skyward, flashed, and vanished as the Northern Defense Army performed its final checks on the city's defenses.
Dozens of Magpie Bridges stretched tens of thousands of miles from Thunder City to the Capital of the Taiyi Kingdom. Completely unaffected by the Defensive Formation, they demonstrated the formidable power of the law of love.
Along the way, cultivators from the Seven Righteous Sects tried various methods to sabotage the Magpie Bridges, but they could not even intercept the cultivators transporting supplies. Travel across the bridges was simply too fast.
These ironclad facts provided ever stronger proof that laws existed.
Judged by results, the brilliance of the law of love overwhelmingly eclipsed Words Become Law and the way of deficiency.
The Heavenly Dao was elusive and intangible. Who knew whether pursuing it would succeed? But the way of love already had concrete examples, and that alone was enough to attract everyone.
Most high-level cultivators at or above the Spirit Transformation Realm feared the Heavenly River in Lin Bai's possession and planned to cultivate the way of love only after he died;
A small minority believed the Heavenly River was not a punishment for lovers, but a trial that tempered and advanced their pursuit of the way of love. They believed that true sincerity could split stone and metal. Even if Lin Bai imposed the Heavenly River on them, a deeper understanding of the way of love would surely let them break through it and advance their cultivation, or master the Heavenly River for their own use...
Low-level cultivators did not worry