Cheng Ming stood at the head of the group and said again, "This junior is Cheng Ming of Ascension Gate in Meng Country, and I am the one presiding over the Council Hall today. If Senior has any instructions, please give them!"
"Hehe, it has been a long time since this old man last saw True Person Li Feng of your sect!" Snowy Realm True Person swept his gaze around and laughed. "Mm, and the sect leaders of all you young friends as well. We old fossils spend every day comprehending and cultivating, far less hot-blooded and vibrant than you, with lives so full of excitement!"
"Senior delves deeply into the Heavenly Dao, and your path of cultivation reaches the heavens. You are precisely our model!" Cheng Ming said with an ingratiating smile. "How could the games of us juniors possibly catch Senior's eye?"
"Hehe~" Snowy Realm True Person merely laughed, then looked around again. "It has been a long while since this old man came to this hall! Sigh, perhaps before long, I will be gathering with the sect leaders of all you young friends! Every meeting brings corpses strewn across the land!"
At this, how could Cheng Ming and the others fail to guess Snowy Realm True Person's purpose? Cheng Ming turned his head slightly and looked toward the cultivators from the Three Cultivation Kingdoms, including Shanghua Sect. They all nodded faintly.
"What True Person says is indeed correct!" Cheng Ming turned back and answered respectfully. "Every great war is provoked by the sword cultivators, and each time, the Dao Sect and sword cultivators leave tens or even hundreds of thousands of corpses behind. This... cannot be helped! After all, this is a cruel war, not comparable to an ordinary dispute!"
After hesitating for a moment, he continued,