"All right, this isn't the time to argue. Daoist Friend, do you have anything else to say?" Mr. Kuangyang said amiably.
"What I mean is, even if Mr. Kuangyang is a grandmaster of alchemy and invokes the privilege of the Supreme Elder Token, I'm afraid we'll still end up back on the bidding track," Lu Xiaotian said.
"May I ask what Daoist Friend Dongfang is basing this on? If you're not just talking nonsense, then you've disrupted this gathering again and again. With enough people supporting the decision, even Princess Yuxin's backing won't be enough to keep you from being removed as a guest elder."
Xiang Nanming's tone was even, but his intentions were far more vicious than Xiang Yinshan's. He meant to suppress Xiang Qingcheng before she had fully spread her wings, then take the Supreme Elder Token from her. And to suppress Xiang Qingcheng, dealing with the enormous headache that was Lu Xiaotian was crucial.
"Exactly. If you can't explain yourself today, then you've repeatedly disrupted this gathering and flouted the rules. We'd be better off without a guest elder like you," Xiang Yinshan and Xiang Feihong chimed in again, both firmly in league with Xiang Nanming.
"Brother Nanming is right. I agree with him. If he can't give us an explanation, then I don't think someone like him deserves to be a guest elder of the Supreme Elders' Council, even if he's an alchemy grandmaster." The two Mingkong Elders exchanged a glance. Though they weren't on the same side as Xiang Nanming, they also wanted the Supreme Elder Token. They had to push Xiang Qingcheng, its holder, out of the way before they'd have a chance. Until she fell, their goal was no different from Xiang Nanming's.
Before anyone knew it, the great cultivators present had split