Ancestral Temple, Seal Conferring Hall.
Chief Seal-Bearer Chou Shou held a scroll of Dao edicts, expressionlessly reading through it several times before finally looking up at the two deputy seal-bearers in the hall.
He said indifferently, "The Seal Conferring Hall holds the authority over the promotions of Dao Lords across all continents, and it naturally requires rigor and fairness. Some people on this list have qualifications that are a bit too shallow; the two of you should take this back and revise it. As it stands, I cannot easily submit this for the Supreme Hall Master to review..."
Cold sweat slightly beaded on the foreheads of the two deputy seal-bearers.
These two had previously been attached to Dao Lord Jin Jun. Now that Jin Jun had suddenly vanished, and Su Han along with the other two deputy seal-bearers had been transferred away to serve as masters of other ancestral temples, the dirty work and scapegoat duties of the Seal Conferring Hall fell upon these two.
On the preliminary draft of the Dao edict, there were indeed some whose qualifications and Dao attainments were still shallow, but neither had it been drafted by the two deputy seal-bearers. When it came down to it, it was Saint Ancestor Yan Bai who had casually made a stroke of the brush back then and chosen those continent masters.
Now Chief Seal-Bearer Chou Shou was suddenly acting strictly by the book—was he going to defy the will of Saint Ancestor Yan Bai?
Yet this blame would fall squarely on the two of them!
The mouths of the two deputy seal-bearers twitched, and they were about to blurt out that Saint Ancestor Yan Bai had appointed them, but under Chou Shou's cool and indifferent sweep of his gaze, the words stuck in their throats.
"What the