The war reparations from the Seven Righteous Sects and Five Demon Sects would take at least half a month to arrive. Their excuse was that the sheer quantity of supplies required time to gather and transport...
Ancestor Chilian and Song Yaoqing, the war criminals who should have been sent to the Righteous Alliance, chose to defect on the very day the Seven Righteous Sects reached an agreement with Lin Bai.
The Poison Sect and Blood Sect informed Lin Bai that the Heaven-Sent Ones had leaked the news, allowing the two to escape. Then both sects issued rather lukewarm wanted notices, also asking the Righteous Alliance to help apprehend the traitors. They declared that whoever captured the pair must send them to the Righteous Alliance for punishment...
Both excuses were utter bullshit.
But neither Lin Bai nor Xu Longyun took this too seriously.
Xu Longyun did not want to strain relations too far. Besides, most people were accustomed to things taking dozens of days, or even several months, to accomplish.
Lin Bai, meanwhile, figured that events were moving so quickly now, with changes every day, that he might go seize the resources himself before long. Whether they delivered them hardly mattered.
He rarely relied on his subordinates to fight his battles anyway.
Over the next few days, Lin Bai spent most of his time deploying Magpie Bridges.
After all.
Activating a Magpie Bridge between two people in love required his personal involvement.
Fortunately, travel between the cities connected by Magpie Bridges was instantaneous, so it did not take up much time.
During this period.
Lin Bai returned to the Righteousness Sect headquarters, formerly the Returning Dragon Temple, for a look. He found that little had changed at the sect grounds. After the Poison Sect's people withdrew, none of the original disciples