As the Village Chief finished speaking, it suddenly grew quiet.
Tombkeeper Village had joined the Holy Zhi Palace of the Barren State.
Ye Futian, who had become an apostle of the Sword Saint of the Void, inherited the first sword matrix of the Nine States—the Nether Sword Matrix.
Just as everyone had guessed, the old Village Chief had departed from the Barren State to select an heir. Now all the cultivators of the saint plane who belonged to the Sword Saint of the Void followed Ye Futian. From this point onwards, the Barren State had saints.
The Holy Zhi Palace of the Barren State was a holy land, and therefore eligible to attract cultivators from across the lands. The Barren State would become the first holy land in history whose Palace Lord was not of the saint plane yet ruled over saints in his dominion.
In all of the Nine States, those in charge of the holy lands were cultivators of the saint plane. After all, this was the world of cultivators.