Hesitation

Decide? How was she supposed to decide?

Xue Ke looked toward Golden Crocodile Douluo, who seemed as though he were sitting on pins and needles.

He could neither advance nor retreat.

That shameless pair, Bo Saixi and Tang Chen, and the Clear Sky Sect elders were all here. Who was to say that the brute wielding the Clear Sky Hammer wasn't nearby as well?

Tang Chen had an agreement with Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect: no more attacks on anyone connected to the Royal Family.

This agreement had been made after Xue Qinghe's "fall," when the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect helped Heaven Dou take revenge and push the Star Luo front back to its original borders.

Helping Xue Ke essentially meant getting involved with the Royal Family.

But if he retreated, that might no longer be the case.

This time, the Clear Sky Sect had come under the banner of revenge. They merely feared the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so Tang Chen had not acted or even shown himself. Yet he was most likely hiding in some remote corner, preparing a charged strike against them.

No one could guess what Tang Chen and Bo Saixi were thinking.

Whether they intended to probe Spirit Hall was also something he had to consider.

After all, Bibi Dong, the Pope, had not appeared for several years. It was only natural that people would grow suspicious. He should have done what Qian Renxue had during her infiltration of Heaven Dou and sent out a stand-in to draw the fire.

But now that suspicions had already arisen, they might even suspect that Spirit Hall's upper ranks had all vanished or died, using this matter to test members of Spirit Hall like them.

"What a headache!" Golden Crocodile's mind raced.