When Kou Chongxue brought everyone into the Yanlin Holy Land, Shang Xia didn’t follow. Instead, he brought Yanlin Ju around the city to get everyone to surrender.1

With Yanlin Ju, a Martial Sage, personally making an appearance, along with the aura of the powerful Martial Dipper Realm experts of the Azure Ascension World, with the addition of their control over the grand formation, the cultivators of the Yanlin Clan could only give up. Moreover, they knew that if they continued to resist, the ordinary non-cultivator clansmen would not be able to live.2

As such, the process of getting the city to surrender went a lot smoother than Shang Xia expected.1

When he was making his rounds around the city, he ran into Huang Jinghan and Jiu Du who seemed to be in a hurry to return to the city.1

Seeing the serious look on their faces, Shang Xia couldn’t help but ask, “Seniors, did it not go as planned?” 0

Jiu Du didn’t seem interested in wasting his breath on a junior, but Huang Jinghan spoke from the side, “We ran into a peak-tier Martial Sage and fought several rounds. Obviously, I couldn’t defeat him. Elder Jiu Du arrived soon after, and we managed to retreat...0