With the deaths of eight Demon Saints as a deterrent, the transfer of power in the Thousand Islands Alliance proceeded with exceptional smoothness. Wood Palace True Monarch became the alliance leader with virtually no opposition.
With Yang Jing backing him, his authority was considerably greater than the previous leader's, and he managed to establish a state where his orders were followed without question within the Thousand Islands Alliance.
If the change in leadership caused little stir within the Thousand Islands Alliance, then the execution of Cang He True Monarch for colluding with Demons was a bombshell that sent shockwaves through the entire alliance.
The Thousand Islands Alliance was merely a loose coalition of Independent Cultivators with little real authority over its members. Executions were exceedingly rare, even for Golden Core Cultivators, to say nothing of an old-guard Nascent Soul True Monarch like Cang He.
