After some thought, Qing Chen quietly laid out a new chessboard.
After the Impermanence Sect's destruction, Blackwood Island was like a fierce tiger with a broken spine.
With every Golden Core True Person dead, everyone on the island became a headless fly, thrown into utter chaos, with no strength left to resist.
Seeing that the tide had turned against them, Blackwood Island's leaders could only steel themselves and, together with the Dian Cang Sect's leaders, raise the white flag and surrender to the Condensed Jade Sect.
They hoped only to preserve their lives and leave themselves a way to survive.
With the Condensed Jade Sect's True Lord Xuanji, a figure so far above the mundane world, unable to conveniently take action again.
And with the Impermanence Sect, the chief culprit, eliminated, the elders went with the current, accepting Blackwood Island's and the Dian Cang Sect's surrender and rapidly expanding their strength.
Yet who could have foreseen that Blackwood Island's fate would be so fraught with hardship?
For matters were far from that simple.
After a meticulous investigation, Qing Chen, Deputy Hall Vice Lord of Tianshu Hall and Battle Hall Master, actually discovered that many disciples on Blackwood Island, along with its vassal lineages and forces, had not abandoned their treacherous ambitions!
They were secretly making contact and colluding with one another, harboring surviving disciples of the Impermanence Sect.
Threatening the Condensed Jade Sect's safety!
Not only that, Qing Chen also found a wealth of incontrovertible Projection Stone evidence, exposing everything they had done.
When the Golden Core elders and Tianshu Hall learned of this, they were instantly enraged.
"Those remnants on Blackwood Island show no gratitude for our sect's mercy and dare to harbor the scum of Impermanence. They must all be put to death!"
Qing Chen accepted the order