Chapter 210: Key Factor (1/2)

With a slight frown, Li Jing said, “You didn’t hear me? Okay, I’ll say it one more time. From now on, Nie Tian will be your junior martial brother, and you’ll forget about the things that happened between you and him.”

Yu Tong bowed her head in silence for a while before replying, “Got it.”

“Good.” Li Jing said no more.

Under the starlit sky, Yu Tong’s shoulders couldn’t stop from shivering. Apparently, Li Jing’s decision had greatly shaken her.

However, she didn’t dare to disobey or argue with her. She could only do as she was bid.

After all, she had a very good idea of what kind of person the sectmaster was and what punishment she would face if she dared to go against her orders.

She could only try to slowly forget the unpleasant incidents between her and Nie Tian.

Her master, Shen Xiu, had noted her sorrow and indignation. She touched her head and said softly, “Kiddo, Nie Tian has become an important asset of our sect. I heard something about the things that happened between you and him, but the moment he awakened the Bone Blood Demon, he was bound to become one of us.”

After all, Shen Xiu had had gone through winds and waves with Li Jing. She understood that now that she had made up her mind, no one’s feelings would change her mind, no matter whose.

After giving the order to Yu Tong, Li Jing turned to look at Hong Can, Zou Yi, and the others.

Under her suggesting gaze, all the disciples from the other sects gathered by her side, including Li Fan, who she had released and returned to the Blood sect with the others.

Even Hong Can, who was from the Hell sect, spoke to her very carefully. “Sectmaster Li, could you tell us what happened to the Realm of Flame Heaven during the time we were gone?”

Upon hearing Hong Can’s words, the expressions of all those who had returned from the Heaven Gate trial turned grim and concerned. A subdued mood rapidly spread out among them.

“Terrible things,” Li Jing said with a plain tone.

Then she went on and briefly explained to them about the war between the seven sects and the foreign invaders.

Not long after Hong Can and the others had entered the Heaven Gate, it disappeared. However, at the same time, a large amount of outsiders swarmed into the Realm of Flame Heaven via opened spacial rifts; most of them were low-tier, but there were also a few high-tier ones.

However, knowing that their Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had broken down and outsider demons would soon invade the realm via those spacial rifts, the Hell sect had evacuated before they arrived.

Most of their powerful experts had been scattered in their affiliated cities, while others had gone to the Ghost sect.

Experts from the other six sects had also learned that the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had lost its effect and realized that they wouldn’t have walls to stay behind if they chose to defend the Hell sect. Therefore, they had returned to their respective sects.

That way, not only would they be able to contend with the outsiders with the help of their grand, sect-protecting spell formations, but they could also shelter the clans that clung to them.

As they had expected, soon enough, countless outsiders had flooded the Realm of Flame Heaven, spreading out to attack all the sects and sending some of their best warriors to the cities where the experts from the Hell sect had held fast.

The war between the outsiders and the seven sects immediately unfurled and spread out to every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Later, when the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was polluted and demon Qi inundated some parts of the realm, the teleportation portals lost their effect.

Communication between the seven sects had grown increasingly difficult. As time passed, they gradually lost contact with one another.

For example, when the Blood sect had been besieged by outsiders, they found it harder and harder to receive information from the other sects.

The latest news they had received said that the Grayvale sect had already been sacked by the invading outsiders; most of their Qi warriors had died by the outsiders’ hands with only a few successfully breaking through the siege, whose whereabouts unknown.

Since some powerful experts from the Hell sect had joined the defense of the Ghost sect, they had been in a stalemate with the main force of the outsider army.

Meanwhile, since the Spiritual Treasure sect had lost their Heaven Burning Earth Flame Formation, they had no choice but to go to the Cloudsoaring sect and join their camp.

On the other hand, since the Mystic Mist sect wasn’t as strong as the other sects, the outsiders hadn’t deployed much of their force to attack them, and thus they were currently able to defend themselves.

However, everyone knew that the main force of the outsider army had been deployed to the Ghost sect.

Once the Ghost sect lost their battle, the elite outsider troops would march on to the Mystic Mist sect and Cloudsoaring sect.