That evening, several scouts the sect master had sent out returned safely.
They brought back an even more shocking report.
"Lord Sect Master, earlier today, sects large and small within a two-hundred-kilometer radius were all visited by experts from Qianqiu Town. They all claimed to be subordinates of the White-Haired Venerable. They were only sixteen or seventeen years old, but every one of them was extraordinarily strong, and they were all women. Their purpose was to demand that the sect masters submit."
"What?" The Time Sect Master's eyes widened as he rose to his feet. "What about the Dongya Sect? Were they visited too?"
"Yes." The reporter was drenched in sweat and looked extremely nervous.
The Dongya Sect was even somewhat stronger than the Time Sect. In the surrounding region, it had originally been the strongest force aside from King Zhen.
Given that sect master's temperament, he would probably never submit.
But...
Reality often defied expectations.
"Lord Sect Master, the news I received is that the Dongya Sect refused to submit and was wiped out to the last man."
"Wha... what?"
At that moment, the listeners present were completely speechless.
"The ones who visited different sects should have been different people, but each of them was strong enough to crush those sect masters."
"So that was how it was."
The Time Sect Master truly felt a lingering fear.
At the same time, he was convinced.
"If I had refused during the day, would I have faced the same outcome?"
The thought that the girl possessed the strength to wipe out his entire sect by herself made him feel as though he were sitting on pins and needles, chills rising in his heart.
Especially that night, when more scouts returned to the sect and reported the details to him, every account