"The second matter concerns the Heavenly Palace's attitude. The so-called secret meeting Shi Yan mentioned has too many suspicious points. The Heavenly Palace's current stance is strange, but before victory and defeat have been decided, they could not possibly cast us aside so extremely. It is more likely that the Divine Sword Sect fabricated all this to fish in muddy waters. They themselves used the words 'pulling the wool over people's eyes,' which further proves that the supposed suppression of the War God Clan and the Blueblood Starlit Sea was very likely just the Divine Sword Sect's own claim."
"The Divine Sword Sect most likely only wants the Azurecloud Divine Tree. If they were truly asked to lead the charge, they might not necessarily go! Of course, they also want you four disciples. When the fighting gets fierce, if they see that the situation is wrong, they can simply withdraw from Azurecloud Continent. Then the ones left to bear the other side's fury will only be your Azure Soul Hall. They will suffer no losses anyway."
"The third matter is killing you, Jiang Qingliu! That can only happen if you leave the 'Azure Sky Myriad Sword Barrier.' Otherwise, their assassins cannot get in. Just do not go out for now. If they want the four disciples, they absolutely cannot act recklessly themselves."
"And rest assured, my friends will be here soon. Although they rank ninth on the Heavenly Ranking, there are quite a lot of them. Even if they are no match for the Divine Sword Sect, the Divine Sword Sect cannot swallow them whole. With them here, we will have a voice too."
Her friends were that so-called "bestie group," then.
Long Wanying was a decent person, and her connections were quite extensive.
Long Xiqian could not compare to