Chapter 920: Exar (1/2)
Stella thought about Arc's answer.
Fun to watch?
That obviously wasn't enough reason to keep this war going, but his first reason was already a pretty good one.
The war truly helped Cultivators to become more powerful.
Yet, Stella had expected more.
This reason felt a bit... simple.
Some seconds of silence passed.
”Gravis,” the man said suddenly.
Gravis was a bit surprised that this illustrious senior brother wanted something from him.
”Yes?”
”Everyone in the world thinks that you are a beast, and you have been declared an enemy of humanity,” the man said.
Stella felt like a heavy punch had hit her.
This was all because of her.
She knew what it meant to be the enemy of all of humanity.
Gravis could never show himself in the human territories again.
And why?
It was all because of her!
If she had been stronger, Gravis wouldn't have needed to save her!
”Okay,” Gravis said without surprise. ”So?”
Stella and Liam were surprised that Gravis was taking this development so well.
However, after thinking about what they have heard from Gravis' past, this really didn't seem to be that bad in comparison.
”Didn't you have some grand plan?” the man asked.
”Yes, but it seems like I can't go through with it now,” Gravis said. ”It requires the cooperation of at least one Peak Sect.”
”If that's all, then you can still proceed with your plan,” the man said.
Stella, Liam, and Gravis were all confused.
Didn't this man just say that Gravis was the enemy of humanity? How would any Peak Sect dare to cooperate with him?
”And which Sect would cooperate with me now?” Gravis asked.
”My Sect,” the man said.
The three of them looked with surprise at this person.
His Sect?
So, this mysterious person was part of a Peak Sect!
Stella quickly went through all the different Ancestors and Ascenders she had met in the past.
None of them fit this person.
However, there was one Peak Sect that Stella had never gone to.
”The Purist Sect,” Stella said.
The man nodded.
”I'm the Ancestor of the Purist Sect,” he said.
The Purist Sect.
The Purist Sect was always very isolated and xenophobic. They didn't allow anyone to enter their territory, and they rarely talked with the other Peak Sects.
The Purist Sect nearly never involved itself with human affairs.
The other four Peak Sects wanted to get the cooperation of the Purist Sect. After all, the other four were working together very closely, while the Purist Sect only did their own thing.
Sadly, no matter what they did, the Purist Sect wouldn't talk or cooperate with the other Peak Sects as long as it didn't involve something of massive importance.
It even went so far that the Highest Commander of humanity didn't control the eastern front.
The only thing that the Purist Sect did was to take care of the eastern front and both of their adjacent rivers.
Even the strategic maps in the important command centers of humanity just had the eastern quarter of the world blackened out.
There was no point in looking at the eastern front.
The Purist Sect was easily dealing with the beasts, and from what humanity was able to extrapolate by several clues regarding the beasts' movements, the Purist Sect was doing an outstanding job.
From what humanity saw, the eastern front was basically the most stable front out of all of them.
The Purist Sect even had enough leftover forces to completely control their adjacent rivers.
Even the Primordial Force Sect to the west couldn't deal with both of their rivers.
Yet, the Purist Sect did it easily.
The Purist Sect almost seemed mysterious and otherworldly.
One had to remember that it definitely wasn't easy to deal with the beasts.
After all, a Peak Sect wasn't enough.
60% of the human forces fighting at the frontline directly belonged to the Human Alliance. Only the remaining 40% were made up of the various Sects.
Yet, the eastern front was handled entirely by the Purist Sect.
This was also the main reason why the Human Alliance didn't force their cooperation on the Purist Sect.
They didn't want to provoke a sleeping giant.
Just let it sleep and do its job.
”Wait,” Gravis said. ”So, the Purist Sect would be willing to support my plan?”
”Yes,” the man said.
”But wouldn't my location be leaked? Even if the Purist Sect is very isolated, some people are bound to have heard of me and might report it to the other Peak Sects. At that point, they will demand the Purist Sect to hand me over.”
”I don't think that you would be willing to offend four Peak Sects just so that my plan works,” Gravis said.
”You're right,” the Ancestor of the Purist Sect said. ”I wouldn't.”
Gravis blinked a couple of times.
”Then, why do you offer to help?”
”Because no one will notice you,” the man said.
Gravis' brows furrowed in skepticism. ”And how's that supposed to work? I need to be in contact with humans constantly.”
”Yes, but I can choose which humans you come into contact with,” the man said.
Gravis' eyes shone. ”So, the Purist Sect is willing to be an intermediary for me?”
”No,” the man said.