CHAPTER 32: START OF THE SUMMIT(4)

As the banquet commenced, so did the various competitions on the stage.

Today only the human race will participate in the competitions as the guests will only participate tomorrow in the main event while automatically qualifying in the preliminaries.

The ancient Races and monster races observed the human race's talents and lamented the diversity and strength displayed by the race's younger generation.

The ancient race lamented the low population of their races while the monster race lamented being enemies with such a talented race.

The younger generation involved in the competition began noting their competitor's strengths and weaknesses without knowing their ancestor's thoughts.

As the competition neared it end of the first day all the disciples of the major sects and a few individual cultivators and disciples of small sects qualified for the second-day competition.

After a few hours of rest, the second day of the competition commenced with a grand opening speech from the Heavenly Sword. Various gifts were distributed to the participants who qualified for the second round by the Sword Sect Master.

All race younger generations immediately bowed to the heavenly master for his generosity and thanked him wholeheartedly with happiness on their faces.

Later the younger generation fought on the stage while the older generation watched the match with relish.

By the night the competition was completed with everyone fighting with all their strength only when they faced a formidable enemy, each race showed their top skills during the day and received compliments and guidance from the top powers. Then everyone went to bed with a contended smile after the competition.

While the younger generation left with contended smiles, the ancestors and the top powerhouses of each race began preparing for tomorrow's main meeting.

The next early morning the top powerhouses woke up from meditation and reached the meeting hall in the city hall mansion.

The hall is divided into four segments, the human race and the monster race, each occupied a segment of the room to sit and the ancient race sat on the other two segments.

The human race twitched lips at the brazen behavior of the ancient races and the monster race lowered their head and didn't bother looking at the ancient race behaviors.

After sitting for a few minutes, the Heavenly Sword approached the center of the stage, greeted everyone with a smile, and expressed gratitude for their attendance at such a grand occasion hosted by them.

He then started stating the reason for arranging the meeting with other races.

1) The heavens have punished all the races except for the monster race, by striking their stronghold's spirit veins and lowering their quality by a grade.

We need to know the reason for the heavens punishing us.

2) Various continents have risen from the center of the continent and pushed our eight continents to the edge of the world.

Will it make our continents more backward by sidelining us from heaven's plans or we will be the first line of defense from anyone who invades the continent?

3) With the expansion of the world borders, will the concentration of spirit energy in the continents drop?

As the supply of our world spirit energy doesn't meet the demand due to the new continents.

4) Does anyone have a plan on how to enter the new continents while bypassing the blockage?

If anyone has such a method, please share as we can all cooperate.

Everyone became silent as the heavenly sword fired the core questions without wasting any pleasantries with them.

The ancient dragon who has golden hair and golden eyes with a huge muscular body stood up and looked at everyone's faces and spoke. 

"A century ago, a rather strange intruder intruded into my golden palace, I thought he had come for the treasure, but he came directly to my room and started his negotiations with me about supporting them in the war by betraying our ancestors in the upper realm."

"I thought he was a mentally delusional person and beat him into a pulp and contacted my ancestors and informed them of it, they told me to stay safe and don't ascend until they have contacted me back."

As soon as the dragon spoke, the phoenix spoke she remembered a fly appearing in their nest proposing the same deal to them and she roasted him and forgot about it.

The Quillin also began chirping about stepping on mice while in their garden while on a leisure walk for disturbing its walk with such an absurd suggestion.

The giants nodded in agreement and said they too swatted a person to death as soon as he brought such a suggestion.

Everyone silently gave their approval for eliminating their enemy differently.

After contemplating for a moment, the heavenly sword concluded that since we had not taken any action despite knowing that the enemy had reached our world, the heavens had punished us by awakening us and compelling us to search for the enemy in our realm.

Everyone concurred with the heavenly sword's conclusion and then turned their attention to the other questions, holding their heads in contemplation.

We don't know why the world has expanded, we don't know if spiritual energy will become scarce, and we don't know if our ancestors are safe in the upper realm. 

We also don't know who our enemies are and what they are planning, and we can ascend to the upper world. 

A human cultivator lamented and began to sigh.

Everyone heard the sigh of fellow cultivators and became downcast, for the shadow of the unknown is more dangerous than the known.

Heaven's sword saw that the emotions of all the people had become heavy with worry, so he clapped his hands to draw their attention to him and spoke.

Does anyone know where the Divine Sect headquarters is, they are the only ones who can answer us as they record every heaven secret in the world.

Everyone got light back in their faces and began discussing and a cultivator from the five elemental sects rose from his chair and said "I heard they mainly live deep at the center of the world and only the sea clan and mermaid clan know the location of their sect."

"They recruit from any race regardless of their birth and train them to become divine masters, once they leave the continent they won't be seen again for a long time as they mostly spend their energy on divination while staying indoors."

The cultivator concluded and sat down.