Shi Hao addressed the familiar faces behind him with carefree ease, his voice brimming with heroic spirit.
Yet the Supreme Beings behind him all wore bitter expressions, their hearts filled above all with resentment at their own helplessness.
Shi Hao felt no regret over this choice and took the prospect of going to the Foreign Realm as a hostage in stride.
Most importantly, to him, Shi Qingyun was a companion, someone with whom he encouraged and spurred one another along the path of the Great Dao.
"You were always the one helping me before. This time, let me protect those by your side."
Shi Qingyun had drawn all the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings into the Boundary Sea. With those supreme experts who could decide the outcome of the war gone, the Nine Heavens had the Heavenly Abyss.
Although the Foreign Realm was stronger, breaching the Imperial Pass was nothing more than a fool's dream.
And in the rear of the Nine Heavens, although Shi Qingyun was no longer there, outstanding talents and members of the older generation continued heading to the Border Wasteland as reinforcements.
Continuing the war would benefit no one.
Thus, the Foreign Realm made a demand: if Shi Qingyun's Dao companion was handed over, they would cease hostilities for five hundred years. This was also to give them time to dispatch more cultivators.
Naturally, the cultivators of the Nine Heavens would not agree to such a proposal. Neither the many cultivators who had followed Shi Qingyun here nor his own contributions to the Nine Heavens would allow them to do so.
Moreover, Shi Hao and the others were no longer the Void Dao cultivators they had once been. They were Supreme Being Seeds of the Nine Heavens' future, and even seeds of future immortals.
And every one