He watched Chao Xuan's escape light depart.
Li Ping stood suspended in the air, silent for a long while.
During their earlier conversation, Chao Xuan had applauded him for killing Elysian High Person.
Clearly, he deeply despised Demonic Path cultivators like Elysian High Person.
That was hardly surprising.
Before the upheaval at Northern Mountain, demonic cultivators had nominally been members of the Immortal Alliance too.
But in reality?
The Confucian Sect and the Righteous Path had joined forces, far surpassing the Demonic Path in both strength and influence. Demonic cultivators could only live with their tails tucked between their legs in the Great Zhou Cultivation World.
Never mind wantonly slaughtering mortals to collect living souls for treasure refinement, as Ten Thousand Souls High Person had done-even directly wiping out other factions or forcibly collecting protection fees, as the Returning to Sainthood Sect did, was forbidden by the Immortal Alliance.
Precisely because he feared punishment from the Immortal Alliance.
To repair his White Bone Banner, Ten Thousand Souls High Person had even been forced to travel all the way to the Far North, conceal his tracks, and go to great lengths to guide the Otherfolk into massacring cities.
Rather than calling the Demonic Path members of the Immortal Alliance, it was more accurate to say they were suppressed by an alliance dominated by the Confucian Sect and the Righteous Path, leaving them no choice but to obey its rules.
Whatever the Confucian Sect and the Righteous Path decided, they could only carry out in silence.
But now.
Great Scholar Song of the Confucian Sect had fallen, and even its sect-guarding treasure, the Sword of Utmost Sincerity and True Illumination, had been lost. With the balance of power within the Immortal Alliance upset, the long-suppressed Demonic Path naturally began vying for a