What was going on? How could the Heavenly Maiden Cult know what was going on? They only knew that Hui Qingping and Wu Gongling had colluded together and betrayed their sect.
Yet, in a sense, Hui Qingping could not exactly be said to have betrayed her sect. The Heavenly Maiden Cult's rules forbade marriage. To marry Hui Qingping off to Wu Gongling by taking a roundabout route, they had first made Hui Qingping withdraw from the Heavenly Maiden Cult.
There was simply no way to pick this matter apart in detail. Once it was laid bare, it became a colossal joke.
Refusing to lay it bare was merely deceiving themselves. Who did not know the trick behind Hui Qingping's withdrawal from the Heavenly Maiden Cult?
Those who called it a betrayal of the sect could, at most, say that the disciples of Hui Qingping's branch had betrayed the sect. In a sense, they were simply obeying their master, which did not seem excessively wrong.
In short, this affair had thoroughly humiliated the Heavenly Maiden Cult into fury.
The Heavenly Maiden Cult could still manage its internal affairs, but the pressure from outside was immense. The Han Kingdom Imperial Court was enraged, and Hundred Rivers Valley and Supreme Palace were furious as well, all demanding that the Heavenly Maiden Cult answer for it.
Had the Heavenly Maiden Cult not acted out of selfish desire back then, Wu Gongling could only have joined the Han army in attacking the Song Kingdom from both front and rear. Perhaps they would have torn the Song Kingdom apart before the war even thawed.
Wu Gongling had not been so powerful in the beginning. Back then, if he disobeyed, he simply could not withstand being dealt with; every side had ways to rein him in. But