"If so many of you are coming here to compete, will this place even be big enough? What if this Secret Realm isn't as grand as you imagined?"
Wouldn't that make what was left even stranger?
All in all, he couldn't understand what was happening.
"If that's how you want to put it, there's nothing I can do. But I want to remind you that this isn't something you can resolve however you please. We'll have to see how things turn out."
After he said that, the disciples who had been fretting fell silent at once.
"You think I don't know what you're plotting? If you have a problem with us, say it outright. But this is a match between the Demon Suppression Division and the Cultivation Sect. It isn't just your personal opinion, and it's not up to you to decide whatever you want."
He made himself perfectly clear. He hadn't even dared entertain those ideas. In any case, he had long since seen through it all.
"If that's how you want to put it, then yes, that's more or less true. But I don't think there's much difference between the two. Anyway, I have my own arrangements and plans, and I can't go around saying the same things they do."
Liu Xi's expression had already turned sour when he heard what that disciple said.
"If you have anything to say about our arrangements and plans, you can say it directly. There's no need to make things difficult for your Senior Disciple Brother. He didn't get where he is today easily."
"We haven't made things difficult for Senior Disciple Brother! We've always respected him. Why are you saying otherwise now?"
"Exactly, Master."
The disciples chimed in one after another, trying to use the opportunity to bluff their way out