Taihao Peak, Cloud Dragon Hall.
Within this highest hall of the Yunyang Sect, Sect Leader Ji Guantao sat entrenched in the seat of honor.
His expression was blank as he watched the middle-aged cultivator spraying spittle at him!
The other man's demeanor was exceedingly arrogant, one finger nearly jabbing into Sect Leader Ji's nostril. "Ji Guantao, your Yunyang Sect has acted with such reckless perversity—do you have any regard left for our Nine Peaks Sect?"
"I advise you to turn back from your delusions. It is not too late!"
Facing this stern rebuke from the Upper Sect's envoy, Ji Guantao flicked his Whisk and said calmly, "True Person Yin, just speak plainly. What does True Immortal Hongxi mean by this?"
A dignified Golden Core True Person, yet coarse as a marketplace lout. The Shanhai Yin Clan truly had talents springing up in abundance.
Ji Guantao despised him to the utmost in his heart.
Yet Ji Guantao's offhand, indifferent attitude caused True Person Yin's surging momentum to falter.
True Person Yin put away his brazen expression. He gave Ji Guantao a meaningful glance, then respectfully bowed toward the north.
When he straightened again, his expression had become incomparably solemn. "By the Sect Leader's decree, the subordinate Yunyang..."
The decree brought by this Upper Sect envoy, issued by Zhao Hongxi, the Nascent Soul True Immortal and Sect Leader of the Nine Peaks Sect, demanded that the Yunyang Sect immediately cease its attacks on the Guiyuan Sect and compensate the latter for all its losses.
The compensation was provisionally set at ten thousand High Spirit Stones and fifty Flying Ships. In addition, the Yunyang Sect had to cede ten mines to the Guiyuan Sect, no fewer than three of which had to be Spirit Stone mines.
True Person Yin spoke in a grim