The battle at the Baiyou Merchant Alliance's station in the sector near Zhanmeng Three soon spread throughout Houde.
But everyone's attitude was subtle. A few people said they should be severely punished, but many others said the truth should be investigated first.
In the end, the entire Houde Realm felt an instinctive rejection toward these Outer-Domain Cultivators.
As for the truly influential True Venerables, what they looked at was the cause and effect behind the matter.
As long as they were not enemies of Qu Jianlei or Han Li, they all felt the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had gone too far in bullying others.
It was not that this realm did not welcome outsiders coming to do business, but with such overbearing and unreasonable conduct, what did they take Houde for?
Lingyun Sect's stance was steady and measured. It first searched everywhere for Qu Jianlei and Han Li while investigating the whole sequence of events.
The matter of Qu Jianlei being ambushed had already been reported. Lingyun had all kinds of secret arts and methods, and at the same time, it did not want to be looked down on.
Faceless's true identity, however, had not been made public, but it could be confirmed that he was a True Venerable Hunter, someone who collected money to kill.
That meant everyone could also confirm that this was not the first time True Venerable Qu had made a move in a Habitable Sector. The battle in Jieran Sector had been his doing as well.
Lingyun believed the incident in Jieran Sector was understandable. After all, it was a prosperous sector, and if he had not struck hard, even more innocents might have been affected.
Although True Venerable Qu had acted on the other courtyard's territory, it was precisely because of that that Lingyun was