Venerable Jie Mie's words left the sea clans with no choice but to believe him. Even Shi Mo and Lu felt their minds go hazy, and for a moment, they actually believed what Venerable Jie Mie had said.
Ten thousand years ago, none of the sea clans here had been born. Whether Ancestor Shan Ao had truly interacted with cultivators from outside back then, no one among the sea clans in Spiritual Sea Palace knew at this moment.
If it was true, and these outside cultivators had really been invited by Ancestor Shan Ao, then blocking them would truly be an act of gross disobedience.
Faced with such a situation, all the sea clans harboring ulterior motives felt their hearts tremble.
Elder Xi Rong's gaze was icy. His eyes darted rapidly, and a hint of madness seemed to emerge within them.
Suddenly, a thunderous shout burst from his mouth. "You have colluded with outside cultivators and intend to plot against my Spiritual Sea Palace. Today, I shall issue an invitation on Lord Shan Ao's behalf and ask Patriarch Xu E of the Spine Mastiff Clan to enter Spiritual Sea Palace and purge these treacherous outside cultivators."
Xi Rong's voice rumbled like thunderbolts suddenly breaking across the sky, shaking heaven and earth.
When Xi Rong uttered those words, Que Shan, Kun Chou, and the other sea clans were all greatly alarmed, their gazes swiftly turning toward Xi Rong.
Xu E was publicly recognized by all the sea clans of the Spiritual Sea as the first most powerful and terrifying existence beneath Ancestor Shan Ao.
A rumor had once circulated among the sea clans of the Spiritual Sea, saying that Xu E had fought a Wood Spirit on Wood Island whose strength rivaled a Mahayana cultivator, on one of the Spiritual Sea's