More than ten days passed in a flash. Only one day remained until the alliance gathering of the leaders of the nineteen provinces of the Nine Li Continent.
The Old Marquis of Dongdeng Prefecture had sent invitations far and wide, bringing the Immortal Wave Five Cities bustling to life again. Cultivators from the ancient dynasties and sects of the nineteen provinces arrived in Tide Dragon City in an endless stream during this period, numbering over two thousand. Almost every day, the city's people could see immortals crossing the sky and extraordinary phenomena shaking the heavens.
The rulers of nineteen provinces were gathering in the Immortal Wave Five Cities. This was an event second only to the opening of the Emperor's Tomb, and naturally became a hot topic throughout Nine Li The Human World. All kinds of rumors, speculation, and hearsay spread among the cultivators of the nineteen provinces, growing wilder with every retelling.
Some claimed that the Ancient Emperor Successor and Dongdeng Prefecture had jointly organized this gathering, inviting the great powers of the nineteen provinces to seize the opportunity presented by the Divine Prohibition Path Guardian's Heaven and Earth Sword Furnace and the sudden collapse of the Fifteen Sects. They would form an alliance, implement new policies, put a complete end to Nine Li's age of chaos, remake the world, and restore justice and peace to its people.
They intended to accomplish something great, and something good.
But many of Nine Li's common people did not believe this claim and dismissed it outright.
Through endless years of chaos, wave after wave of immortals had attained the Dao and taken turns wielding power over the world. Yet had this chaotic age ever changed in the slightest?
Not only had it failed to change, but whenever a new generation of immortals