Beastmaster of the Ages

fear Li Wushuang.
She’ll be hard-pressed to protect herself from the alliance.
Without the wargodeans and the Blueblood Starocean, there's no way she can project any influence in the territory of the Myriad Solar Sects.”

“An army of a million?!” Everyone in the sect was shocked.
It was a force on such a scale that it could wipe their sect off the face of the continent.

“I knew from the start that Li Wushuang was far too reckless.
Things would catch up to her sooner or later.”

“Looks like this has come to pass.”

“The Myriad Solar Sects are finally here.
The sect master has made the right decision.
We can still pull ourselves out of this mess.”

“We never should've joined them in the first place….”

All kinds of panicked thoughts floated through their minds.

“There’s another reason I'm distancing our sect from them,” Yun Tianque said.

“What is it?” Yun Mingcang asked.

“Before the alliance's army comes, Li Wushuang is going to bring her two hundred thousand troops back to our sect to hold out using our formation.
That alone wouldn’t be too much of a problem, but she's unwilling to give up on the sapling sites and wants us to send a hundred thousand of our own to face off against the incoming army! She wants us to be cannon fodder just so that she can keep the saplings!

“Now I know her true goal.
She wants to keep the saplings and for the alliance to exterminate us! After all, we're still part of the Myriad Solar Sects.
She's using us to make the Northdipper Swordsage's alliance look bad for killing one of their own.
From the very beginning, she wanted us to die! I acknowledge that it was my fault for initially allying with the wargodeans and Blueblood Starocean.
But back then, Li Wushuang wasn't in the picture.
We had no choice if we were to compete with the Azuresoul Palace, who had the Xuanyuan Dragon Sect backing them.
But now I've decided to jump ship.
It’s still not a good look for us, and if our sect comes to an end as a consequence of my decisions, I’ll be the one to stick my neck out to atone for it.” To make sure their sect stayed united, he had to make it clear; as expected, Li Wushuang's ambitions had caused some frustration to rise.

“Isn't that too shameless?”

“They really see us as nothing more than livestock.”

“Haha…
it's like they think we're just going to give them divine herbs like this.”

“I understand the sect master's troubles.
Li Wushuang's presence here wasn't expected at all.
Back then, he had no choice.
The performance of the Azuresoul Palace's disciples at the Voidsky Skirmish was far too shocking.”

“Let’s all stand with the sect master!”

Yun Tianque was a focal figure of their sect, especially with his record of having defeated Gujian Qingshuang before.
He was their pride and joy and his authority was highly respected.
That was why Tianming needed him.

Now that Yun Tianque had gained their favor, he brought out an explosive suggestion.
“We’ll quickly cut off our ties and we still hold all the harvested divine herbs.
We shall seal off our sect and defend what belongs to us without compromise! These are the gifts the divine tree has bequeathed to the denizens of our continent, not outsiders! We shall take our fates into our own hands and not let anyone take away the slightest bit! Even if we don't leave our sect for the next century, we'll still have profited greatly from all these divine herbs!”

That caused an uproar.
Nobody expected this would ever happen; there had never been an instance over the past eon where their sect got three billion divine herbs! It was something straight out of a pipe dream.
Every time they felt like they had hope after harvesting so many divine herbs, they were only left with around a tenth of it, roughly three hundred million.
There was far from enough to go around.