The members of the Two Sects each set to work, and soon brought the situation completely under control.
Among them were former leaders of major powers, people capable of commanding hosts of heroes and keeping order. They easily cowed the many Demonfolk into submission and managed matters great and small with flawless efficiency.
The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy paid no attention to these trivial affairs. Instead, he descended into the great hall below and bent down to examine the enormous monster totem.
The totem was stained with blood, its lines dark and deep, radiating a solemn aura.
Although the totem had lost its former vitality, it still seemed possessed of intelligence. The nine-headed serpent's eyes stared fixedly at the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy, as though some colossal creature deep in the distant void were watching this world.
The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy blinked several times, then took on a thoughtful expression.
Lianshan came up beside him. Seeing how intently he studied it, he could not help asking, "Holy Envoy, what divine being is this?"
Celestial Pivot glanced at him and asked in return, "You don't recognize it?"
Lianshan said, "I'm ashamed to say that I only know it is a totem used for sacrifices, capable of communicating with a true spirit and establishing a connection with some deity in the void. I don't know which divine being it represents."
The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy turned back and gazed at the totem for a long time. Only when Lianshan was almost out of patience, beginning to suspect that the envoy himself did not know its origins, did he slowly say, "This is Nether Heaven's form before Dao Unification-Great Sage Xiangliu!"
With that single sentence, he turned and left the hall.
Lianshan's expression jolted. "His form before Dao Unification?"
That brief sentence