Things with Yun Tianque hadn’t gone as smoothly as Tianming had hoped. Wanting people like him to serve under you with just one action was very difficult.

Tianming could have chosen to kill him and instead seized the other six cultivators of the Supracloud Sanctuary who were ranked grade-five in the hierarchy. However, control of the sect would have been less effective then. Hence, Tianming had given Yun Tianque a chance.

“We’ll take things step by step then.”

The hundred thousand swordpupils who had arrived at the Azuresoul Palace had brought a huge storm. With their status as the ‘main branch’, they had been overbearing and seized three Sword Branches. They all looked down on the swordpupils of the Azuresoul Palace. Conflict broke out daily, even resulting in deaths.

And for the Azuresoul Palace, they could only swallow their indignation...