As Ye Zhen slowly made his way toward the Divine Sect Main Hall, he felt rather frustrated.
No one would be happy to have their secluded cultivation interrupted, especially for reasons that seemed so utterly inexplicable.
The Cult Master's Edict Jian Qianxiong had sent Ye Zhen contained only one sentence: "Come to the Divine Sect Main Hall at once. There is something you need to explain!"
The tone was not particularly harsh, but the word "explain" made Ye Zhen distinctly uncomfortable.
The matter he was being asked to explain should be something that had happened over the past few days. But he did not think he had done anything out of line lately.
Or was someone dredging up old accounts?
When Ye Zhen arrived at the Divine Sect Main Hall, the gathering inside still took him by surprise.
Ye Zhen had thought he would merely be explaining himself to Cult Master Jian Qianxiong. He had not expected so many people to be present—nearly all the upper echelons of the Sun Moon Divine Cult had gathered here.
Cult Master Jian Qianxiong, Deputy Cult Master Tian Guizhang, Deputy Cult Master Yao Sen, Law Enforcement Hall Elder Tu De, Sun Radiance Hall Master Shen Cang, Grand Commander Ji Yuanxiu, Moonlight Hall Master Feng Qingyue, the newly appointed Internal Affairs Hall Master Feng Gao, Internal Affairs Hall Deputy Master Nian Xinghe... other than the two Grand Elders, nearly every true high-ranking figure of the Sun Moon Divine Cult was gathered here.
Aside from them, there was also a warrior Ye Zhen had never seen before. Dressed in green robes, with unkempt hair and stubbly beard, he possessed third-layer Pulse Forging Realm cultivation. He stood in the hall with both fists clenched, shouting nonstop.
Of course, Chief Steward Wang was there as well. At this