Vulture Peak, Perfect Enlightenment Cave.
While Saint Tongtian was making arrangements for Nezha and Yang Jian, a very important discussion was also taking place here.
Only four people took part in this discussion.
Naturally.
They were Daoist Randeng, Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun, Puxian Zhenren, and Daoist Cihang.
The four were discussing whether to defect to the Interception Sect or the Western Teachings.
Daoist Randeng's stance was clear: there was no need to deliberate. They should simply go straight to the Interception Sect.
His reason was equally simple. The Interception Sect was too powerful.
Judging by the might the Interception Sect had displayed, Daoist Randeng was all but certain that it would have the last laugh.
For one thing, the Interception Sect had ten thousand immortals paying court and far too many experts of every stripe. The Chan Sect was simply no match for it.
The Chan Sect had only one path to victory: resort to sinister tricks and continually whittle away the Interception Sect's experts from the very beginning of the Investiture of the Gods.
Only if those maneuvers went well could the balance of power between the Chan Sect and the Interception Sect gradually even out in the middle and later stages of the Investiture Calamity.
Only then would the Chan Sect have a chance of winning.
But the crux of the problem now was that the Interception Sect also had experts skilled in such tactics.
Even Saint Tongtian himself seemed to have suddenly become a different person. He no longer cared about brotherly bonds and had instead begun studying military strategy.
The Interception Sect was already immensely powerful, and now it was playing sinister games as well.
Under these circumstances, the Chan Sect's chances of victory had dwindled to almost nothing once again.
The first signs of this were