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The next day.

As messengers of the various invitations gradually arrived at Mi Yun Mountain, the prearranged date also approached.

The Succession Ceremony for the new School Leader of Taiping Dao was officially underway.

However, since Taiping Dao had only recently established a foothold in the Changqing Domain, its foundations were extremely shallow, and it really didn’t have much of a relationship with the numerous surrounding Immortal Sects.

The celebration was organized without inviting too many Immortal Sects, extending invitations only to familiar ones like Changqing Immortal Sect, Jiuzhou Immortal Gate, Dongyang Mountain, and a few others around the Changqing Domain’s periphery, where any with Cultivation above the level of True Immortal were just sent an invitation, and that was all.

As for whether the others would come or not, that was unclear.

But on the day of the ceremony, looking at the list of more than thirty Immortal Sects that had come to offer congratulations, Lu Yuan knew that many had come.

Those who could come from the list of invitees had basically all come.

’It seems that my Taiping Dao is starting to be seen as on par with Changqing Immortal Sect in the eyes of the surrounding sects,’ he thought atop the Immortal Platform, as he coordinated the handover of the School Leader’s seal with Yi Dancheng and surveyed the many guests below.

Only during the time two hundred years ago, when Song Xiren succeeded the leadership of Changqing Immortal Sect, was there such grandeur.

And as for the Succession Ceremony for Ding Wanxuan to take over as the Alliance Leader of the Western Domain’s Five Sects organized by Jiuzhou Immortal Gate, that was far more meager.

Apart from the sects of Jiuzhou itself and the Immortal Sects which were vassals that had to attend, none of the other independent sects cared to bother with them.

The reason for this was simple.

The surrounding Immortal Sects actually despised Jiuzhou Immortal Gate and regarded it as a force of rebellion.

No matter how righteous the banner that Jiuzhou waved, calling for the revival of the Nine Spirits Sect’s Tao Inheritance, to reclaim their ancestral lands and whatnot.

No matter how noble these reasons were, they couldn’t change one fact, and that was that Changqing Domain was thrown into chaos by them, with fractured lands and rampant demons causing the people to be displaced, and countless Immortal Sects’ inheritances exterminated.

All these atrocities were committed by Jiuzhou Immortal Gate.

And these actions, to those surrounding domains that stood secure, to those Immortal Sects that strictly adhered to the righteous path, seemed nothing short of heretical and offensive.

All those who benefit from the status quo tend towards stability.

Only with stability can one’s interests be inherited.

And the actions of Jiuzhou were doubtlessly disrupting this stability.

Today, Jiuzhou could disturb one domain, eradicate an Immortal Sect, wreak havoc on a country.

If such behavior was not stopped, but rather highly praised, then what would prevent others from copying this model in their own domains tomorrow? Who could feel secure?

Wouldn’t they fear that their own Sect’s Tao Inheritance might also be extinguished?

Thus, the disdain for Jiuzhou was actually an instinctive response from each Immortal Sect, sparked by their own moral stances and survival needs.

Furthermore, it goes without saying that Jiuzhou Immortal Gate had already begun to infringe upon their interests.

Heavenly River Sect, Yuchan Tao, Wind and Thunder Path, Radiant Immortal Dynasty – had any of these Jiuzhou sects not been actively expanding in their domains?

And those Immortal Sects whose interests were harmed by their expansion, could they not harbor enmity and resentment?

Previously, the reason why Heavenly River Sect could not extricate itself from the great battle was that it was entangled by hostile Immortal Sects.

Why did those sects view Heavenly River Sect with enmity, throwing stumbling blocks its way?

Was it not because they had been bullied by Heavenly River Sect?

And why did Yuchan Tao and Wind and Thunder Path not want to get involved in the mess of the Changqing Domain?

Was it not because these two sects had also noticed the hostility of the surrounding Immortal Sects and, to avoid inciting collective wrath, refrained from waging war, and actively localized themselves to mitigate the grudges with the other sects?

All these reasons were why the surrounding Immortal Sects despised Jiuzhou Immortal Gate.

Under such an atmosphere, tell me, who would look favorably upon these sects of Jiuzhou?

To say they were despised by people and hated by dogs would not be an exaggeration.

However, Taiping Dao, unlike Jiuzhou Immortal Gate, was held in a different regard.

In the eyes of the surrounding powers, although the origins of Taiping Dao were mysterious and its sudden rise was inscrutable, its actions had won the admiration and satisfaction of many.

Think back to when Taiping Dao first arrived in the Changqing Domain, what was the situation like in the Southern Domain?

Demons roamed freely, the people were suffering, each Immortal Sect had fallen into evil ways, and humanity was lost.

Not only did they not contemplate eradication of demons to maintain the righteous path, but they also mingled with the demons, joining them in harming other Immortal Sects and the common people.

Such conduct was contemptible and urgently demanded rectification.

Yet when it actually came to taking action to remove these reprobates and restore the righteous path of the Immortal Sects, no one wished to step forward.

Taiping Dao was different.

Upon its arrival, it purged the demons of Youxin Country and then, through a single Ghost-Exorcising Ceremony, brought peace to the entire Southern Domain. It restrained the sects within from straying, and with demons either fleeing or perishing, the whole atmosphere was purified.

In the three hundred years that followed, Taiping Dao always upheld stability, never actively sought disputes, and maintained peace with its neighbors.

Unlike Changqing Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Gate, which oppressed and swallowed up their vassal sects, Taiping Dao chose to protect dependents like Jintai Gate instead.

Such behavior, committed to the Tao, peaceful and law-abiding, upholding righteousness, and shielding the weak, with two other local neighbors as contrast, seemed to the surrounding Immortal Sects like the model of an Immortal Sect, a saint among men.

With such a good neighbor present, who could dislike them?