How could the people of the Heavenly Alliance and Daoist Alliance never have considered calling it quits? Especially after the appearance of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Yet years upon years of hostility had long become inertia, and schemes laid over millennia and tens of millennia regularly bore fruit. Whenever their arrangements proved effective, how could they bear to let the toil of countless years go down the drain? What they lacked was an opportunity to sit face-to-face and talk. What they lacked was a chance to compromise with one another. What they lacked was a retreat they could take hand in hand! Xiao Hua's appearance, the release of the Spiritual Root selection technique and the Spiritual Root cultivation method, True Person Xiyue's self-detonation and final words—these had brought all of it about. The alliance leaders and supreme cultivators of the Daoist Alliance and Heavenly Alliance had begun sizing one another up, already preparing their words.
Yet, in that brief silence, just before the dawn of peace arrived, absolute darkness suddenly descended!
Boom... Another deafening explosion erupted alongside the sighs in Dragon God Son's and Old Man Gu Qiong's hearts!
As True Person Xiyue had whispered earlier, True Person Jin Sheng had quietly descended. Now, he suddenly charged toward the dragon-shaped golden ring beneath the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area. The body wrapped in his cloak abruptly exploded, much like True Person Xiyue's self-detonated Nascent Soul. The tremendous blast not only flung everyone into the air, but also shook the dragon-shaped golden ring. Along with the thunderous explosion, a shrill voice pierced everyone's ears like a sharp sword. "Alliance Leader Haoyue, the Daoist Alliance cultivators have indeed fallen for it and gathered together. This old man has opened the restrictions within the dragon-shaped golden ring. We can use the power of