"The Sky Palace's alleged stance on this is also really suspicious. There's a lot of things we can suspect about the so-called secret meeting Shi Yan talked about. Even though the Sky Palace has indeed been a little weird lately, there's no way they would go to such extremes and abandon us entirely. No doubt, the Empyrean Sword Sect is just trying to take advantage of our misfortune. Tianming, your beast reported that they mentioned it was a haphazard plan to fool us, right? That's just as good as proof that suppressing the wargodeans and Blueblood Starocean is merely part of their own ambitions.

"The Empyrean Sword Sect probably just wants to get to the Azurecloud Divine Tree. They might not necessarily step up in battle for the sake of your sect. However, they still want the four of you to become their disciples, so they'll at least appear like they're doing something. But when the situation goes south, they’ll just leave the continent altogether and leave the Azuresoul Palace behind to take on the wrath of your enemies. They won't suffer...