The outcome of their discussions was to hold a 'life-and-death arena match'. This was a method the Daoist Scripture Hall often used in the past to resolve disputes. When two conflicting parties truly could not be reconciled, the Daoist Scripture Hall would set up a life-and-death arena and have the cultivators from both sides fight to the death.
The victor was considered to be in the right; whether the loser had a valid grievance became irrelevant.
The problem, however, was that the Daoist Scripture Hall of old held immense prestige. Its reclusive First Seats were all True Monarchs, and though they never showed themselves, no one dared to underestimate them.
The Daoist Palace of today, to put it nicely, was a grand alliance jointly formed by the Southern Cultivators. In reality, however, it was just a makeshift group that Zhi Gong Daoist had thrown together with Wang Ping and the others. Their greatest pillar of support was merely Wan Zhi Daoist.
