What good would telling the Treasure-Evolving Sect do? Even the Royal Court had no solution, much less the Treasure-Evolving Sect. Ming Chaofeng had no choice but to start preparing for the worst.
He immediately sent a message himself to Gao Lian, who had taken over his junior brother's responsibility as team leader. He told Gao Lian that, if they truly ran out of options, Li Hongjiu's Heaven-and-Earth Bag contained a magical treasure called the Space-Rending Sword, capable of breaking through fifth-grade defenses. They could use it in a crisis.
The Treasure-Evolving Sect had given Li Hongjiu that magical treasure to save his life at a critical moment. Unlike a sixth-rank magical treasure, it did not require the cultivation of a heavenly immortal or higher to wield, but the Space-Rending Sword's tremendous power also meant it consumed an immense amount of cultivation. Someone below the heavenly immortal realm probably could not swing it more than a few times, though they could pass it to someone else in a crisis.
He had even entrusted them with the details of the treasure. Clearly, Ming Chaofeng had already braced himself for the possibility that his youngest junior brother was beyond saving.
He also knew what the forces gradually converging on his youngest junior brother on the Mountains and Rivers Map were plotting. He more or less understood why someone would spare no expense to scheme against him: an innocent man's jade became his crime.
He had thought the sect's wholehearted support would give them a promising chance of victory. Now, it seemed to have achieved precisely the opposite. He had never imagined his youngest junior brother might instead become the eye of this battle's first true storm...
Lu Yin, fleeing at full speed, suddenly stopped in midair and turned to look back. He discovered