"Such a thing actually happened?"
The Daoist raised an eyebrow, looking very surprised.
For one thing, he was surprised by the Northern Faction's collusion with the Maha Sect. After all, the Maha Sect had not descended from the plateau for a very long time, not since the Former Tang. The last Maha follower to leave Tubo had been the Eight-Suffering Wisdom King, and that had been a thousand years ago. Moreover, neither side acknowledged the other. When the Eight-Suffering Wisdom King established the Eight Sufferings Dao Tradition in Western Kham, he did not acknowledge the Maha Sect as his ancestral seat, while the Maha Sect had outright branded him a traitor.
Of course, some believed the two sides were putting on a show, a smokescreen for the Maha Sect's intended expansion. Still, even if it was a smokescreen, it at least showed how cautious the Maha Sect was about descending from the plateau. Besides, the Eight-Suffering Wisdom King had been slain by Longbrow, and the Eight Sufferings Dao Lineage in Western Kham had been swept clean by Xuanmen. Naturally, the Daoist himself and Han Ningguang had contributed to that as well. Now the sole remnant of the Eight-Suffering Wisdom King's lineage was the Suspended Heart Temple on the western bank of the Nu River, at the edge of the plateau.
And now, after a thousand years, the Maha Sect was stirring again?
The Maha Sect had deep foundations, a product of Ancient Western Buddhism's descent into evil. The Daoist had dealt with both the Corpse Tuo lineage of Heavenly Scabbard Mountain of Western Hunan and the Ku Tuo lineage of Western Kham, so he naturally knew how formidable they were. Like the Blood God Sect, they practiced evil, bloody arts, killing people to refine artifacts of immense power, while also