"For this reason, before the elite competition, I am willing to personally set up a venue and invite all the top experts from the continent to exchange insights. Anyone who emerges victorious will not only receive generous rewards but will also be granted a noble title within the empire."
"I wish to call it the Peak of the Summit Battle."
Peak of the Summit Battle?
For a moment, many gazes swept over the numerous experts present in the venue, then unanimously landed on Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao remained expressionless and closed his eyes slightly.
This Peak of the Summit Battle was also a preparation for the Douluo Continent to face the abyssal plane.
On this continent, all soul masters and soul engineers kept their cultivation methods deeply hidden. They were unwilling to impart them fully, even to their own disciples or descendants.
If this continued, it would not only be detrimental to the improvement of cultivation methods but might even cause some heritages to quietly die out.
From the emergence of soul masters until now, the number of cultivation techniques that could be practiced across the entire continent could be counted on one's fingers. This showed just how selfishly each soul master guarded their own cultivation methods.
Such a stagnant cultivation environment, like a pool of dead water, was not conducive to facing the abyssal plane in the future.
Only by allowing different cultivation methods to collide and progress against each other could the entire soul master cultivation system change.
Perhaps, in the midst of these collisions, new techniques or secret arts might even emerge.
If the elite competition was meant to select talented children for cultivation, then this Peak of the Summit Battle was to use battles between experts to give other soul masters an opportunity to learn from the experts' methods.
Looking at the gazes around her, Ju Zi also slightly turned her head to glance at Lin Xiao beside her.
"I am well aware of what everyone is thinking, and I am willing to admit that the previous two Peak of the Summit Battles were not as good as this third one. Why don't we take this opportunity to hold it today?"
"And for this event, I have established a special reward."
As she spoke, Ju Zi's expression became solemn. "I have already said that all lands illuminated by the sun and moon's radiance belong to the empire's territory."
"Now, with sects standing tall across the continent and located within my Sun Moon Empire's territory, they are naturally my Sun Moon Empire's subjects."
"Today, I proclaim that all sects shall form a Soul Alliance, to be uniformly managed by the empire. All sects belonging to the Soul Alliance must abide by the alliance's common covenants."
"In the future, the ultimate victor of the Peak of the Summit Battle shall also become the Soul Alliance's alliance leader. Therefore, today's battle is also the battle to decide the first Soul Alliance's alliance leader."
Before the people from the various sects could react, Ju Zi's words continued to flow out without pause.
Kong Deming, who had been listening attentively the whole time, showed a slight change in expression. He immediately understood.
If what Ju Zi had granted to the Illustrious Virtue Hall and Jing Hongchen, symbols of the Sun Moon Empire's peak soul tool technology, was the authority to manage the military, then what she was granting to Lin Xiao and the Netherworld Cult, symbols of the Sun Moon Empire's peak strength, was the authority to manage all the continent's sect soul masters.
Gathering all the sects here, everything prepared beforehand had merely been paving the way for this moment.
What Peak of the Summit Battle? Forming the Soul Alliance and electing its leader was Ju Zi's ultimate goal.
As for whether the various sects would join or whether there would be any surprises regarding the alliance leader's position… one only needed to look at Lin Xiao standing beside Ju Zi to know the answer.
After several breaths of silence, the various sects around quickly reacted.
Indeed, there was no such thing as a free banquet. The Sun Moon Empire's invitation to the major sects, including Shrek Academy, was naturally not just for simply watching an enthronement ceremony. What they wanted was to gather and manage all the sects after the ceremony.
Some disciples from small sects were only slightly stunned, but soon felt somewhat accepting.
Previously, when the three empires still existed, some small sects had actually relied on imperial forces. Now that the Sun Moon Empire had unified the continent, they no longer had any backers. The Sun Moon Empire's intention to incorporate them into an alliance was merely changing to a new backer, which made it much easier to accept in their hearts.
However, some large sects had different thoughts.
For some sects, not only themselves but even the surrounding territories had vaguely broken away from the management of the major empires, operating like states within a state and handling matters independently.
Now, being unified by the Sun Moon Empire naturally made them quite unwilling.
What kind of unification method would the Sun Moon Empire use? Would it demand the sects' secret techniques and cultivation methods? Would they still be able to obtain the same cultivation resources as before?
These were all things these large sects needed to consider.
On one side of the square, the Abomination was similarly seated with two people from the Netherworld Cult. One of them was Wu Yu, and the other wore a bamboo hat, revealing only that it was a woman whose appearance could not be clearly seen.
Not far from him, Tang Ya's face was somewhat pale. Listening to Ju Zi's words, she clenched her fist slightly.
She did not have much resistance toward this so-called Soul Alliance. The scene of the Tang Sect's destruction remained before her eyes. If the Heavenly Soul Empire had intervened back then, how could the Tang Sect have fallen to its current state?
It was just a pity that ten thousand years later, the Heavenly Soul Empire had long forgotten the old friendship with the Tang Sect.
Besides Tang Ya, Bei Bei raised his arm and held her hand, seemingly understanding what she was thinking.
Tang Ya finally was not as resistant as at the beginning and leaned slightly closer to Bei Bei.
Bei Bei and Tang Ya's small actions naturally did not escape the notice of the Shrek Academy group, who had been watching them closely ever since they appeared.
Xuan Zi withdrew his gaze, let out a light sigh, and looked toward Zhang Lexuan, Huo Yuhao, and the others beside him. "This is ultimately a major matter. It is not appropriate for me to make a decision alone."
"The Sun Moon Empire has now unified the continent and acts even more dominantly." Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment. "Announcing this publicly today, I fear they have long been prepared. If what happened back then were to repeat…"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Zi looked toward Zhang Lexuan again. "Lexuan, what are your thoughts?"
"I don't know either." Zhang Lexuan shook her head and glanced toward those few figures in the square.
Such discussions appeared among the various sects. Even a sect like the Body Sect, which was decided by a single word from Du Bu Si, found it difficult to make a decision lightly at this moment. After all, no one could predict what changes would occur after joining this Soul Alliance.
"Reporting to Your Majesty."
Just as everyone was still discussing, someone suddenly stood up.
Everyone looked over upon hearing the voice. Only then did the Shrek Academy group realize that the person was not unfamiliar to them; it was Ning Tian from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, dressed in male attire.
Ju Zi smiled slightly. "So it is the young master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, Ning Tian."
If someone else had used the term "young master," Ning Tian would have felt somewhat unaccustomed to it. After all, although she possessed outstanding talent, she was ultimately a daughter.
However, now, looking at Ju Zi before her, who was also a woman yet had ascended to the throne as emperor, Ning Tian's thoughts suddenly underwent some changes.
"Replying to Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance. I need to return to the sect and discuss it with my father before making a decision. I humbly request that Your Majesty grant us a few days."
The smile on Ju Zi's face did not diminish. "It was my oversight. Everyone may naturally discuss it slowly."
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