You Lian of the Moving Mountain Sect was in a very bad situation.
She had brought a group of people over to watch the show, but upon reaching the Ice and Snow Association's gates, they found no one there. They hurried over to the Ice Giant Mercenary Group instead.
Sure enough, everyone was there. Yet utterly beyond expectations, the Ice Giant Mercenary Group and the Nasta Ice Snow Association had merely raised the matter high and set it down gently, casually paying a bit of compensation to settle it.
This left the victim factions that had come to watch extremely dissatisfied.
The crowd immediately began making a racket. Unexpectedly, the Ice and Snow Association ignored them completely, while the Ice Giant Mercenary Group directly turned hostile and sent out experts to call out the names of the loudest troublemakers on the spot.
You Lian was among them.
She and three people from three other factions were singled out, while numerous Ice Giant Mercenary Group and Ice and Snow Association elites subtly formed a ring around them.
"I never thought the people of the Ice and Snow Association could suffer such humiliation without uttering a word! What complete trash!"
You Lian opened with the foulest of insults. "What the hell is the point of outsiders joining your Ice and Snow Association? You can't even protect your own members. Joining you would just mean dying for nothing. You'd be better off joining some third-rate faction!"
"Even third-rate factions know to protect their own cubs. Yet the mighty Ice and Snow Association swallows its anger like this. How pathetic!" said a refined-looking man with glasses beside her, his voice equally cold.
The leaders of four factions—the Moving Mountain Sect, Peacock Association, White East Gate, and White Orchid Iron Eagle Association—had gathered together, confronting