Chapter 2475: New Structures (2/2)
When the Soul Shrine refused, the Celestial Sealing Map enveloped their territory. When the Celestial Sealing Map was lifted, the Soul Shrine had already disappeared.
The day after, a teleportation portal in the Thunder Shrine flashed many times and then the news that the Thunder Shrine had joined the Fire Shrine’s alliance spread everywhere.
A Shrine had been destroyed after all.
But things didn’t stop there.
The Soul Shrine had been destroyed and the Thunder Shrine had joined the Fire Shrine’s alliance, which had become extremely strong. The Fire Shrine, Ice and Snow Shrine, Empty Space Shrine, Dazzling Gold Shrine, Thunder Shrine, Wind Shrine, and Demon Shrine had become the seven Shrines’ alliance. They were the strongest influential group.
Apart from that, the Fortune Shrine, the Celestial Sound Shrine, the Earth Shrine, and the World Clan became the second influential group.
The Buddha Shrine and the Life Shrine didn’t get involved in worldly affairs. The Hell Shrine wasn’t in the Continent of the Nine Clouds. Nobody knew whether the Light Shrine existed or not.
The Fire Shrine’s alliance was getting ready to rise and dominate the world. For that reason, they wanted to oppress the influential groups of the world, but the problem was that the influential groups had formed alliances to resist the Shrines.
They had agreed on three battles. If the Fire Shrine’s alliance won, the influential groups would join the Shrines’ alliance; if the Fire Shrine’s alliance lost, they would let those influential groups live in peace.
However, two independent cultivators appeared on the side of the influential groups, and they won the battles.
The Shrines’ alliance wasn’t happy. They want to keep the two cultivators and make them join the Shrines. In the end, eight peerless Saints took measures and didn’t manage to trap those two cultivators, and the worst thing was that they even managed to kill a peerless Saint from the Shrines’ alliance.
After that, the Fire Shrine gave up.
That battle amazed the whole Continent of the Nine Clouds, their names reverberated everywhere.
One of them was a complete stranger who had suddenly appeared. He had been practicing cultivation in secret for many years. His name was Zi Zhu, the supreme cultivator.
The other one used to be extremely famous back in the days: Saintly Emperor Xi the Demon!
Of course, those things had happened a long time before, and people still took delight in talking about them, just like people enjoyed talking about Lin Feng’s adventures once in a while.
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In a restaurant in Fortune City, some people were talking about those two people.
Even though the Fortune Shrine had been destroyed, Fortune City still existed. The Fire Shrine was cruel, but they had no interest in destroying ordinary citizens. Many of those people used to be extremely weak ordinary disciples of the Fortune Shrine, or family members of those disciples. They weren’t important at all. The Saints didn’t need to do such things, it would only bring them trouble.
But now, Fortune City wasn’t in a great situation, and there were people from everywhere there, unlike in the past when everyone was related to the Fortune Shrine.
“What does the Fire Shrine’s Leader want to do this time?” asked someone.
“Do we need to talk about it? There are more and more independent cultivators who join influential groups and know they can threaten the Shrines. One or two Shrines wouldn’t be as strong as them.”
“Indeed, but Zi Zhu and Saintly Emperor Xi the Demon’s meeting won’t bring anything this time.”
“Not necessarily! After all, the Shrines didn’t use their full strength last time. This time, things are different. Zi Zhu the supreme cultivator has already started gathering people and independent cultivators. I guess he wants to create an alliance which will be able to compete with the Shrines’ alliance!”
A young man drinking alcohol alone in the restaurant heard those people. He raised his glass and took a sip, smiling strangely.