Chapter 1098: Seven Grand Patriarchs (1/2)

The four great sects had dominated the human world for a very long time.

At the very beginning, they had been the main forces that had fought and driven the outsiders and Ancientspirits from this heaven and earth.

For this reason, they had a sense of superiority when facing other human forces.

However, not everyone was awed by their power and authority.

Zhao Shanling had refused the Void Spirit Society’s recruitment offer, and remained an independent cultivator.

Xie Qian from the Domain of Vast Darkness, who had recently broken through into the late Saint domain, had also refused Sikong Cuo and He Lianxiong’s offers using Nie Tian as an excuse.

Patriarch Pure Heaven was also such a rebel.

There were always people who refused to bow their heads to the four great sects, and those people were usually outstanding in some way.

After hearing Patriarch Pure Heaven’s words, both Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi fell silent.

After serious consideration, they both felt that the four great sects were a bit too domineering.

As for what Patriarch Pure Heaven had said, was it fair that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace merely said the words, and the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries belonged to Nie Tian now?

Becoming increasingly exasperated, Patriarch Pure Heaven let out a cold snort. “The Pure Heaven Sect will remain independent! You’re a Son of the Stars, so what? I can’t acknowledge allegiance to someone who’s only at the Soul realm. I simply can’t!”

The Beast-controlling Sect, the Divine Flame Sect, and the other sects from the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries had all joined the expedition to the three Demon realms, and gained a large number of rare spiritual materials and herbs.

As a fellow sect from the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, the Pure Heaven Sect had naturally received word of this.

They knew that all of the other sects had returned with abundant loot, but they had not been entitled to a share.

However, when the Demons had launched a retaliatory invasion, their sect had become the Demons’ first victim!

Patriarch Pure Heaven found this very hard to swallow.

If he had been at the late Saint domain or the God domain, he might have declared war against Nie Tian already.

However, he didn’t have such power yet, and Nie Tian had middle Saint domain experts like Jing Feiyang by his side.

He was already furious after swallowing this bitter pill. Of course he wouldn’t change his attitude just because Nie Tian and the other experts had come to his aid.

Nie Tian pondered for a while, then said, “I don’t want to force anything on you. If I did, your sect would have been eliminated from the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries already.”

Patriarch Pure Heaven understood that he was capable of such a thing, and thus kept silent.

Nie Tian waved his hands and said, “Forget it. If you want to remain independent, so be it. I’m only here to deal with the Demons. Right now, I still don’t know how many Demons have entered the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries. It’s possible that you and your sect will have to face more attacks from the Demons. Good luck.”

WHOOSH!

Finishing collecting the discarnate souls of the dead Demons, the Spirit Pearl returned to Nie Tian.

Part of the reason why Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi hadn’t joined the pursuit of the Demons was because they didn’t think that their efforts were needed in such an operation.

Another reason was because Nie Tian had hoped to gain useful information from the Demon discarnate souls he would have gathered.

Now that the Spirit Pearl had returned, he ended his conversation with Patriarch Pure Heaven, but communicated with the Spirit Pearl on a soul level.

One of the Spirit Pearl’s wondrous uses was stripping memories from the discarnate souls it captured.

Through the Spirit Pearl’s analysis, pieces of broken memories flowed into Nie Tian’s mind.

Nie Tian’s face gradually grew grim.

Instead of leaving right away, Patriarch Pure Heaven stayed and fixed the Spirit Pearl with a curious gaze, as if he wanted to see what Nie Tian was doing and why.

Hazlitt and Feimos were the only Demon grand patriarchs he had seen, so he also wondered how many Demons had entered the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.