Self-Recommendation?

Tang Zhen was delighted. He had been wondering how to gain the upper hand over Wind Venerable, yet the other man had unexpectedly taken the initiative to step aside and directly yielded the alliance leader's position to him!

He stroked his beard and chuckled, intending to modestly decline a few times before accepting the position. But before he could speak, a cold laugh suddenly rang out from beside him.

"You want to be the alliance leader? I don't agree!"

Xiao Yan looked coldly at Tang Zhen, utterly disregarding the fact that he had just learned Burning Flame Valley's inherited secret technique, the "Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations." He truly took up his bowl to eat, then put it down and cursed the mother who fed him. His words were mocking and merciless.

"Tang Zhen, you couldn't even defend your own mountain gate. If I hadn't brought people to rescue you, Burning Flame Valley Mountain Gate would have long since fallen to the Hall of Souls... And you, a defeated general like this, think you deserve to lead us in resisting the Hall of Souls?"

"Do you want Starfall Pavilion and the Toxic Sect to have their mountain gates breached by the Hall of Souls too, just like your Burning Flame Valley?"

The words with which the Burning Flame Valley Elders had mocked Yao Chen were now being returned to Tang Zhen by Xiao Yan. Listening in the great hall, I was secretly alarmed. Of everyone present, Xiao Yan was probably the only one who dared speak to Tang Zhen like that, wasn't he?

"How presumptuous, junior!"

"My Burning Flame Valley has stood in the Central Plains for thousands of years and possesses deep foundations. You think the Hall of Souls and Ice River Valley could breach Burning Flame Valley? Even