The one standing in Xiao Ze's way was High Priest Nahar!
"Enough!"
That thunderclap-like roar jolted Sand Sea Divine Sacrifice Xiao Ze awake from his furious humiliation.
"Divine Sacrifice Xiao, not only did you keep Divine Envoy Ye under surveillance, you even issued an order to kill without mercy? We need an explanation from you!" High Priest Nahar asked coldly.
Xiao Ze froze for a moment. "High Priest, wasn't this something you all approved of?"
"What we approved was only your proposal to send people to protect Divine Envoy Ye. We never told you to surveil Divine Envoy Ye, much less issue an order to kill without mercy."
With that one sentence from High Priest Nahar, Xiao Ze was left with a stabbing pain in his chest.
When he had proposed protection, it had really meant surveillance. The many Sand Sea Divine Sacrifices present had all understood that.
But Xiao Ze had overlooked one thing: some matters could be done, but not spoken aloud.
Now that he had made such a fuss and Zhang Yide had dragged it all into the open, Xiao Ze had been thrown into an utterly passive position in an instant.
"That's right. We only agreed for you to protect Divine Envoy Ye; we never told you to monitor him! Divine Sacrifice Xiao, what you did was hardly honorable.
"If you ask me, you're the one provoking internal strife within the temple, aren't you?" Ever since Sand Sea Divine Sacrifice Wu You had taken Ye Zhen's side, he had not found an opportunity to show it.
This time, Wu You seized the chance. While declaring his stance to Ye Zhen, he also made his position clear to all the Sand Sea Divine Sacrifices present.
Sure enough, as soon as Wu You spoke, Hua Xing'an, Weng Lide,