Purple-gold light halted before the gates of Kunlun Mountain, and Li Fan appeared. His icy gaze swept over Sect Leader Tongtian and his group as he coldly rebuked, "Tongtian, you dare stop me from purging evil? Do you think there is nothing I can do to you?"
Tongtian stepped forward and angrily said, "Purging evil? Even if my Interception Sect disciples have made mistakes, it is not your place to ignore right and wrong and directly bombard my mountain gates!"
"Ignore right and wrong?" Li Fan sneered, raising a hand to point at the list of Evil Cultivators in the sky, where hundreds of names glowed with black-red karmic force.
"Calling these people Evil Cultivators is already giving you face. It would not be wrong for me to call them Demonic Cultivators instead, yet you protect them. What, is your Interception Sect a demonic sect?"
Primordial Lord of Heaven glanced at the list and lightly shook his head. The Heavenly Emperor was determined to blow this matter up.
Yuanshi slowly said, "We will hand over half. As for the other half, we hope they will turn from evil and return to righteousness, in accordance with the Interception Sect's teachings."
"Brother!" Sect Leader Tongtian looked at Yuanshi in anger. "I will not hand over a single one! They are my disciples. It is not for outsiders to dispose of them!"
Yuanshi asked in return, "Then am I an outsider?"
Tongtian was momentarily speechless.
"Enough." Taishang finally spoke, lightly flicking his whisk as he attempted to ease the situation. "Heavenly Emperor, the matter of purging evil can be discussed at length. Why must it come to blows? The Three Pure Ones are all great powers of the Prehistoric Universe, just like you. We should place the greater good first."
"The greater good?"