"Fellow Daoists, we arrived a step too late, but... we did everything we could!"
"Great Elder Shen fought with all his strength to repel the combined assault of the Martial Emperor and the Star River Sword Immortal, suffering grievous injuries himself. Fortunately, the other grandmasters and great powers arrived in time and sent us ahead to provide aid..."
Members of the Golden Sun Gate flew out of the Golden Crow Puppet and made contact in their capacity as emissaries.
Li Chen appeared and went to Golden Light City with Yu Youxian, He Changnian, and the others for a meeting, only to unexpectedly learn what had happened on several other battlefields.
"The other grandmasters and great powers arrived?" Li Chen caught the Golden Sun Gate Emissary's words, feeling surprise, delight, and worry all at once.
He was surprised that even the Creation Sect's great powers had been forced to act. It seemed the earlier fighting had been far more perilous than he had imagined.
He was delighted because, with the great powers intervening, it seemed the Vast Sea could sleep soundly for the time being.
However ruthless Fang Yuan and his ilk might be, they could not possibly rival a grandmaster of the Puppet Dao. Moreover, the Creation Sect's nine-star battle puppets might also be dispatched here, bringing the region's military strength to unprecedented heights.
What worried him, however, was that this offered no more than a brief chance to catch their breath.
The Creation Sect's strength was limited too. Reinforcing this front meant weakening another. The Dao Path Contest had battlefields far beyond the Vast Sea, and might spread to the Eastern Sea or even the Eastern Victory Continent's mainland. How were they to fill the gaps left in those places?
Protecting one side at the expense of another was