Wei Qing left Skyreach City without anyone following him.
Just as he and Shi Cheng had expected, only Bai Zeyu himself and Tongtian knew that Bai Zeyu's cultivation had plummeted, leaving him with less than a tenth of his former strength.
Nor did Bai Zeyu know that he had unwittingly taken the blame for Tongtian, becoming the target of Wei Qing and Shi Cheng's scheme.
As for everyone else, they had not noticed Bai Zeyu's current condition at all.
After all, not everyone stared at the Great Dao Rankings every day.
Even those who paid attention focused on the fierce competition among the top ten.
For the Shiva Holy Land, the only people who could truly affect the balance of power were the six ranked immediately behind the four Great Heavenly Venerables.
Only those six were true supreme powerhouses, worthy of everyone's attention.
For more than a dozen primordial eras, those six names had stood unshaken on the rankings.
No one could challenge their cultivation or their positions.
The path of cultivation was an ivory tower. Those who truly stood at its pinnacle could not be replaced by the people below, no matter how desperately they fought to squeeze their way up.
Inside the Sea-Viewing Tower, Gong Lou had already persuaded the representatives of the many factions gathered in the first-floor hall to leave.
The Prison-Suppressing Commander did not meet just anyone. These were merely cultivators of the Primordial Origin Realm and Dao-Unification Realm. Across the Shiva Holy Land as a whole, they might have been considered somewhat powerful.
But in a place like Prison Suppression, where experts gathered in droves, they were merely insignificant figures whose presence made little difference.
On the Sixth Floor, the empty plates had all been cleared away.
When Gong Lou saw that Tongtian and