"After killing the Grand Elder of my Shanhai Sect, you still expect me to watch you jumping around alive? I, Yan Shan, will make sure you don't live past today!" Yan Shan also started jumping around, pointing at me and refusing to let up.
"Hmph, I knew this fellow was the mastermind behind everything. If we don't kill him, don't even talk about making us follow the rules!" The old woman also harbored considerable resentment toward me, so naturally she wouldn't let me off.
"Fellow Daoist Xia, look. In truth, the Nine Provinces and the lower realms are like a lesser shaman before a great shaman—they're both governed by the same rules of human relationships. If you had let those twelve people return safely and informed us that each sect could send three contestants, wouldn't this matter have vanished without a trace? Why would we have mobilized our forces to attack? Alas, if you cannot bear the small, you will disrupt the great plan. Fellow Daoist, you made a mistake this time—a grave mistake." Sun Dong shook his head repeatedly before glancing at the leaders of the other islands.
The people from the four islands had long since been thoroughly convinced by me. They also knew the other side would definitely make an issue of this, so they exchanged a glance and completely ignored it. Of course, I couldn't let them keep arguing in circles, so I said, "Even if we hadn't killed them, would you have withdrawn just because you held an absolute advantage? Wouldn't you have thought us even weaker and easier to bully, and still sent your forces here? Since the result would have been the same, why shouldn't we first weaken your living forces instead of releasing tigers back into the mountains and allowing you to