Heavenly Venerable Gudao now regretted everything completely.
He regretted forcibly subduing those independent cultivator Heavenly Venerables in the surrounding area under those circumstances.
Those independent cultivator Heavenly Venerables simply could not be relied upon.
Though they had all joined Gufang Divine Hall, none of them had any intention of living and dying alongside it, sharing its glory and disgrace. Every one of them had their own calculations, and the moment danger arose, their first thought was to slip away and admit defeat.
But what use was regret now?
It was utterly meaningless.
If this argument continued, then unless he used absolute strength to suppress those independent cultivator Heavenly Venerables again, they would only fall into the awkward position where the minority had no choice but to obey the majority.
Heavenly Venerable Gudao took a deep breath and said decisively, "Fine. I understand what you mean. Everyone, go back for now. Once I personally report this matter to the Hall Master, I will definitely give everyone a reasonable explanation."
The Hall Master?
The minds of the eleven independent cultivator Heavenly Venerables present were all shaken!
Who else could the Hall Master Heavenly Venerable Gudao spoke of be?
Why had they been forced to submit to Gufang Divine Hall in the first place?
It was not because they had truly been frightened by Gufang Divine Hall's core Heavenly Venerables. To put it bluntly, while those core Heavenly Venerables of Gufang Divine Hall were indeed powerful, if they had truly been determined to flee, it was not as though they had no chance at all.
Yet they had not fled. Instead, they had gone with the flow and joined Gufang Divine Hall because Gufang Divine Hall had revealed that it had an Above Heavenly Venerable expert backing it.
That was the Hall Master