"It's back, it's back!"
"There's an image in the Moonshadow Stone!"
"In the Spirit Mirror too!"
Inside the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse, after briefly disappearing, the images in the Moonshadow Stone and the Spirit Mirror finally appeared again.
Everyone who had been about to get up and leave sat back down.
At Jade Balance Mountain's table, everyone was still there except the young monk Yelai, who had already left with the monks of Vairocana Zen Temple.
Watching the ever-changing images in the Moonshadow Stone projection overhead, Xiahou You asked curiously:
"Third Uncle, could this image still be coming from that expert?"
Heavenly Lord Shihu said without betraying anything:
"Those powerful presences left as soon as Xu Taiping received the Buddha Fate Inheritance. For now, I'm not sure which faction is sending this image either."
Just as everyone was guessing which faction was sending the image, a voice that had become very familiar to them suddenly came from the constantly shifting scene-
"Everyone in the Shangqing Realm's Cultivation World, we meet again."
The voice belonged to none other than the Heartless Demon Emperor of the Nine Abysses.
Xiahou You immediately asked in puzzlement:
"What does the Heartless Demon Emperor intend to show us?"
As everyone wondered, just as Xiahou You did, what exactly the Heartless Demon Emperor intended to do, his voice rang out again:
"Today, we of the Nine Abysses shall take this opportunity to proclaim to the world: if you continue to allow Qingxuan Xu Taiping to deliver that Buddha Statue bearing the Buddha Fate Inheritance to Mysterious Wasteland Heaven..."
"The Nine Abysses will make no further compromises and will immediately declare war on the entire Shangqing Realm."
An uproar swept through the crowd.
They had not expected the Buddha Fate Xu Taiping had invited to become the spark for