Purple Cloud Valley, Yue Kingdom.
The Meng Family Ancestor stayed there for several days before leaving, satisfied.
Publicly, he announced that, as Meng Qingyi's elder, he had come to Purple Cloud Valley specifically to discuss Meng Qingyi's marriage.
Not long after his departure, Huang Yunzi sent messages to the Core Formation sects of five kingdoms, including the Ji Kingdom and Chi Kingdom, inviting them to Purple Cloud Valley for a discussion.
Meanwhile, the three kingdoms once again sealed their borders with the Cloudmist Mountains, cutting off Windmist Immortal City's contact with the Western Wasteland. Moreover, this blockade was even tighter than the one over a decade ago, ensuring that not even a fly could enter the Cloudmist Mountains and reach Windmist Immortal City.
Because the blockade came so suddenly and was carried out so swiftly and decisively, even the immortal city remained unaware for a time that the three sects had sealed the borders again.
Naturally.
The messengers dispatched from Jixia to Windmist Immortal City and other regions to report that the Four Demonic Sects had joined forces with the Tuluo People to invade the Defender Alliance were likewise stopped when they reached the border between the three kingdoms and the Cloudmist Mountains.
Thus, apart from Li Ping, neither Windmist True Person nor Dai Sangyu in the immortal city knew about this yet.
After returning to the immortal city, the Meng Family Ancestor did nothing.
Only on the day before Huang Yan was to come for his bride did he summon Meng Qingyi to lay his cards on the table.
"Ancestor." Meng Qingyi entered the study and called softly.
The Meng Family Ancestor nodded, then moved his fingertips slightly, casting several soundproof barriers around himself and Meng Qingyi to keep outsiders from overhearing their conversation.
Seeing his ancestor act with