"What's there to discuss? I'm the sect master, so you have to listen to me." Xue Qingcheng declared domineeringly. I looked at her for a long while before saying disdainfully, "Go on."
"I plan to sow discord among the third-tier sects of the four major sects and fish in troubled waters amid the chaos." Xue Qingcheng stated simply. I thought about it. I didn't know anything about the four major sects' current situation, and sowing discord probably wouldn't be easy, so I said, "Be more specific. I've been in seclusion for so long; I should at least understand the situation, right?"
"That's true. I forgot that Elder Lu returned two days ago, while you were still in seclusion." Xue Qingcheng gathered her thoughts and quickly continued, "The four major sects have reconciled again. As expected, the Tiangang Sect returned the Xingyue Sect and Chenyang Sect, though they took away some of their disciples. They claimed to the outside world that those two were unruly, barbaric minor sects, so they had abandoned them and sent them back to the Golden Immortal Path. As for some of the disciples, they've already been presented to the super-large sect behind the Tiangang Sect."
"What?" I immediately had a bad feeling. Xue Qingcheng seemed to have guessed what I was thinking and said, "Li Poxiao, Wan Songxiao, Ni Shi, Li Xiangru, Gudumu, Xia Ruize, and Heizi—unfortunately, they've all ended up standing on the opposing side from us. That was also the condition for releasing the two minor sects. The Tiangang Sect wanted the Immortal Survivors left behind by the Calamity War. As for the two of us, hehe, because of this, we actually avoided this round of selection."
"This... is it a blessing or a disaster?" I asked with a frown. After all, there was