In the morning, Jiang Yuebai led nearly five thousand people on a patrol around Yunping Mountain. By nightfall, this news had spread throughout the Seven Stars River Basin and even reached the Zhuge, Xiong, and Youx families along Eight Immortals River.
The Zhuge Family was delighted upon hearing this. They immediately dispatched experienced cultivators from their Inner Affairs Hall and workshops to assist the Heavenly Interence Sect, as a gesture of alliance.
The Youx Family, being always neutral and not competitive, ignored the news and continued as usual.
However, the Xiong Family was thrown into a panic and quickly contacted the Heavenly Star Sect.
With no hope of overpowering through force, they could only resort to other measures. After many days of deliberation, the two families decided to suppress the Heavenly Interence Sect in business, monopolizing resources needed by low-level cultivators, waiting to see how they would sustain so many people.
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