Immediately afterward, before Ian Song even needed to ask, Shaoyang Chen and the other four Fusion patriarchs each swore on their own Heavenly Tribulation to be loyal to him.
Ian Song also swore on his Heavenly Tribulation, promising to help all five of them ascend to Immortality within five hundred years. If he failed, he would compensate each of them with an Immortal Tome and two million top-grade spirit crystals.
With their relationship now formally established, both sides became noticeably closer and more trusting.
Not one to drag things out, Ian Song immediately took out a jade slip and handed it to the five patriarchs.
Inside the jade slip were five Immortal Arts; each patriarch could choose one to cultivate. Once mastered, the combined power of all five working together would be unimaginable.
Practicing Immortal Arts was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so after receiving them, the five patriarchs discussed briefly, then each picked one and started training.
Half a year quietly passed inside the Divine Temple.
During these six months, the five patriarchs devoted themselves to mastering their Immortal Arts. A month ago, all five succeeded, then spent another month refining their teamwork. By now, their coordinated Immortal Art attack was drilled to a highly skilled level.
After mastering the Immortal Arts, the five Fusion patriarchs underwent a noticeable change in spirit and demeanor. Each had a blazing fighting spirit in their eyes, clearly itching to test their new powers on someone.
Meanwhile, during these six months, Ian Song had been trying to break through the third layer of restriction on the five Array Flags. His skill in restriction arts had improved considerably, but he still hadn't reached the level needed to crack the third layer.
At this moment, four days had passed in the outside world since Ian Song and his group wiped out the Prime One Church’s Sunset Province Branch Altar. The news had already reached the Prime One Church Main Altar.
This was already the sixth branch altar destroyed!
Everyone in the Prime One Church hated Ian Song to the bone. Many disciples clamored to kill ‘Little Demon Song,’ cursing him and even his ancestors for eighteen generations.
But all this was just empty talk—it couldn’t actually harm Ian Song in the slightest.
At the same time, the Prime One Church’s upper echelons convened yet another high-level meeting.
There was only one agenda item: how to exterminate that troublesome Little Demon Song.
After several hours of discussion, they still couldn’t come up with any real solution. The only thing they could do was secretly send more Fusion experts to reinforce the remaining branch altars.
When the meeting ended, Master Mingtan had just stepped out of the council hall when he saw a young figure standing there.
"Derek Ying greets Sect Master."
The young man stepped forward and bowed respectfully.