Pan Zixuan of the Demon Subjugation Alliance wore a gloomy expression. Faced with Lin Bai's mockery, he offered no response.
The old man whom Lin Bai had toyed with earlier seemed to have seized another opportunity. He immediately leaped up and pointed at Lin Bai, shouting angrily.
This time, he spoke rapidly and loudly, his voice carrying throughout the main hall and beyond:
"Talking about an abyss of endless calamity—the one who should fall into that abyss is the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace!"
He first barked out a reprimand, then clasped his hands toward Pan Zixuan with utmost reverence and bowed:
"Senior Pan Zixuan dared to stand up and face the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace. That alone shows what heroic spirit Senior Pan possesses!"
"And the chaos in the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect today—wasn't the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace the spark that started it all?"
He pointed at Lin Bai again and shouted furiously, "The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace should take responsibility for the war in the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect and give every martial artist in the territory an explanation!"
His voice was extremely inflammatory, causing many martial artists inside and outside the main hall to turn their heads and cast hostile looks toward Lin Bai.
Lin Bai listened to him with an airy calm, then chuckled twice before asking instead:
"Why should our Nine Underworlds Demon Palace take responsibility for the war in the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect?"
"Did our Nine Underworlds Demon Palace start this war?"
Lin Bai raised his voice as well and questioned this patriarch from a small or mid-sized family.
The man was stunned upon hearing this. He instinctively glanced at Phoenix Valley and the Pure Yang Sect.
His gaze seemed to say... *Who in