East Sea, Daxing Town, at the Spirit Stone Vein.
Well over a hundred sects had gathered at this very spot!
These sects had separated into distinct groups, clearly forming several different factions.
The Celestial Cauldron Sect and the Jade Balance Sect formed one group with a number of small and medium-sized sects. The Dubhe Sect and the Shaking Light Sect led another, and the Kaiyang Sect, the Willow Leaf Sect, and the Black Water Sect led a third.
This created three powerful factions, none of which could overpower the others, resulting in a three-way standoff.
The three factions were now engaged in tense negotiations.
That's right—negotiations. The possibility of seizing the vein by force was now nonexistent.
No single faction could claim it exclusively, as the other two would never allow it.
"Sect Leader Xiang, my position is simple: all three factions split it evenly! We'll mine it together!" Ling Fengwu, Sect Leader of the Celestial Cauldron Sect, declared.
