It was three o'clock in the afternoon.
In the parliament building in the central district of the capital city, the prolonged meeting was still going on.
Although the 'expedition motion' had been passed, and the federal army was carrying out drills in the Dark Desolate Domain at the north of the Grand Desolate Plateau, the federal army was merely part of all the armed forces of the Heaven's Origin Sector. The Cultivators scattered in all the sects were the other strong pillar of the Heaven's Origin Sector.
Without the support of the major sects, it was impossible for the federal army to secure the final victory alone.