Song Family, the patriarch's residence.
Song Dingxiong had only just returned, and before the accompanying elders could even leave, the people from the Third Elder's faction had come knocking.
"Patriarch, Song Zhong beat the Third Elder to death! You must uphold justice for us!"
"Patriarch, Song Zhong violated the family rules. He should be executed!"
"Yes, Patriarch. Although Song Zhong passed Xingyi Sect's assessment, didn't he say he was going to Hundred Peaks Sect to take another assessment?
By then, he would either die or join another sect. In any case, he would no longer have anything to do with Xingyi Sect.
Even if Xingyi Sect sent people to escort him here, we are punishing a member of our own family. They should not interfere, since he is not one of their people."
Whenever Hundred Peaks Sect held its assessments, people from other sects would wait outside.
They specifically sought out those who had participated in Hundred Peaks Sect's assessment, failed it, and still survived.
These people were taken there by Hundred Peaks Sect disciples, but once they were eliminated, Hundred Peaks Sect would not make another trip to send them back.
As for returning on their own?
The journey was long and fraught with danger; it was truly a nine-deaths-and-one-life ordeal.
Thus, people from other sects would wait there and take those people away.
As for those sects, they had Hundred Peaks Sect's approval to wait there. Generally speaking, the major sects took turns.
Xingyi Sect's turn had not yet come, so as long as Song Zhong went to Hundred Peaks Sect for the assessment, he was destined to have nothing to do with Xingyi Sect.
Song Dingxiong wore a grim expression and said nothing.
If he could kill Song Zhong, did these people need to tell him? More