"Fellow Daoists, please clear the way. Master Qin is heading over to break the restriction. Follow Master Qin, and together we'll pass through the restriction's confinement and reach the Yin Family sect gate."
Suddenly, a shout rang out from behind Zhuge Tianhao and the others. More than a dozen voices immediately echoed in agreement, and the scene abruptly grew noisy and lively.
Zhuge Tianhao, Bai Shichuan, Madam Pan, and the others instantly wore icy expressions.
Those who had shouted were all cultivators who had contributed nothing. They had originally been excluded by Zhuge Tianhao and the others from the list of those allowed to enter the mist. However, upon seeing dozens of cultivators appear, the crowd's emotions surged. One after another, they spoke up, trying to muddy the waters and fish in troubled waters.
Seeing that things were about to spiral out of control, Zhuge Tianhao immediately shouted, "Earlier, we invited all of you to trade with Master Qin and then enter the Yin Family together. Yet not only did you refuse, you also showed great disrespect toward Master Qin and even boasted that you could enter the Yin Family just as easily without him. Now that we've completed our trade with Master Qin, you've come to pluck the peach after someone else did the work. Don't you think you've gone too far?"
"That's right. If you all want to go together, that's fine. Each of you can take out enough Spirit Stones to compensate us for what we've paid." Bai Shichuan immediately chimed in.
The Hong brothers, the five female cultivators from the Green Lotus Sect, and the three people from Jiang Luo's group also spoke up one after another.
For a time, energy surged through the void, and hurricanes swept about. Two groups of dozens of cultivators faced