The courtyard suddenly fell silent.
A look of sorrow appeared on the faces of Zhang Xingyou and the other cultivators.
They were one of the few sects in the Chiqing Realm that consisted solely of female cultivators, accepting only women.
Sects like the Acacia Sect, which were likewise dominated by female cultivators, often seduced others with beauty and relied on their looks and arts of controlling men to gain a foothold in the cultivation world. Among the many powers, they could also rank among the first or second tier.
Yet the Jade Pool Sacred Sect was unique in the Chiqing Realm.
It accepted only female cultivators. Not only were its requirements for appearance, bearing, and aptitude high, its standards for character and conduct were even stricter.
Most disciples had not even stepped beyond the Jade Pool until the day they died, and naturally had little contact with male cultivators.
It could be said that the Jade Pool Sacred Sect had once been a white lotus standing proudly apart in the Chiqing Realm.
It was a sacred land of fairy maidens yearned for by countless cultivators, and had produced many peerless top cultivators of unmatched grace.
Under such rules and atmosphere, even the lowliest disciples possessed immense pride, disdaining to curry favor with male cultivators through their beauty.
Now, not only had they been forced to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, but the immortal envoy from the upper realm even wanted their Sect Master to become someone's servant or concubine, merely to please Su Hao?
If even the Sect Master had to suffer such a fate, the people below her would have no dignity left in the future.
Everyone present had been among the Chiqing Realm's foremost cultivators several decades ago, and the Jade Pool Sacred Sect had likewise been a