"Good. You've got plenty of spirit."
Lu Bai nodded in satisfaction and smiled. "It wouldn't be right to punish you without warning. Don't rush."
"Yes!"
The Grand Elder, dressed in a loose Daoist robe, stood firm and took a step back. He threw his head back and shouted, "Loy-al-ty!"
The Integration stage experts standing behind him joined in at the same time, putting all their strength into echoing the Third Supreme.
In an instant, shouts of loyalty rang out across the sect gate.
On the other side of the plaza, Yuxu Zi and several other Qingwang Sect elders stood together, all looking dazed.
They had watched with their own eyes as these renowned senior masters had gone from haughty and self-important to their current, frankly indescribable state in just half a month.
Wang the Gambler opened his mouth and said, as if he had a toothache, "Now that's... loyalty beyond words."
Yuxu Zi's mouth twitched at that. He had no idea what to say.
If they were like this, then the surviving Qingwang Sect disciples could hardly keep it together. They felt as though their image of the venerable senior masters had shattered into pieces.
Lu Bai didn't mind, and he supposed these senior masters wouldn't dare mind either.
He withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, stood up, and looked toward the sky.
[Ink Dye] activated silently.
The next second, the light was blocked, and darkness fell.
In an instant, the entire sky over Xuanzhou turned pitch-black.
Before people in various places could panic at the upheaval, the darkness receded, and the sky brightened again.
Only a conspicuous line of text remained against the azure sky.
[Spokespersons of the various immortal sects, I am Lu Bai. I'm waiting for you at Qingwang Sect.]
Beneath it was another line of black text in