In the Righteous Alliance's Council Hall, everyone took their seats according to their status as hosts and guests.
Lin Bai sat in the Alliance Leader's seat and surveyed the room. Ye Song, the Purple-Robed Ancestor, Xiao Yu, Zuo Lan, Cen Qing, and the other Mahayana Realm cultivators occupied the front seats.
He Qin, Xin Shang, Long Lin, and the other longstanding alliance members sat farther down. Seeing how natural they found this arrangement, Lin Bai had no intention of disrupting the balance that had formed on its own.
The capable rose to the top. If he forcibly elevated those Golden Core Realm cultivators to sit as equals with Mahayana Realm cultivators, they probably would not feel comfortable themselves.
Everyone wore a different expression, each harboring their own thoughts.
One against a hundred, the weak defeating the strong—everyone was still immersed in the shock the Way of Laws had brought them. The Way of Culinary Arts that came afterward had dealt an especially powerful blow to their souls, and its flavors still lingered in their memories...
The players did not care. They still sat as equals with the many Mahayana Realm cultivators. Unless they could gain something from the NPCs, putting up with hierarchies in a game was far too stifling.
"You Mahayana Realm cultivators have abandoned darkness for the light and joined the Righteous Alliance. With the Taiyi Kingdom fighting alongside us as well, the alliance's power has grown stronger still." Taking in everyone's expressions, Lin Bai offered a few pleasantries.
Then his tone shifted, and he said gravely, "It hasn't been easy for the alliance to get where it is today! Yes, we won a battle, but don't forget that today, more than a thousand alliance members were also killed by the Seven Righteous Sects and the Five