"Good!" The many high-ranking cultivators who had stayed behind were delighted. The Five Righteous Sects had always been close, standing together through thick and thin. Although they regretted that such a once-in-a-millennium genius had not been born in their own sect, they felt no jealousy over the Liulan Dynasty's good fortune. On the contrary, they were glad to see it.
After all, this meant the entire righteous path would flourish!
They were about to say more when a female cultivator reminded them, "The two children were badly injured this time and still haven't woken up. We should go inside and talk."
Everyone hurried to arrange for Zhong Kui Yueji and Ning Wuye to be taken for treatment, while the others went together to the council hall.
After taking their seats, an elder from Jiuyi Mountain asked for a detailed account of what had happened.
Wu Jixiang gave a slight nod, then said, "Fellow Daoist Fu and I arrived outside the Eternal Night Desert first. At the time, we didn't know the Crown Prince was about to undergo the Spirit Transformation tribulation. But the demonic path already had Shen Tu, the Old Devil of the Tower of Reincarnation, and the Old Devil Ji of the Innate Religion present, plotting to bully the young with their superior numbers..."
He gave a rough account of what had happened, leaving out the incident at White Bone Palace. After all, it was hardly something to be proud of... For a Grand Tutor of his standing to gossip in public would have been unbecoming.
But what he had said was already enough to infuriate the cultivators from Jiuyi Mountain and Suzhen Heaven.
The female cultivator from Suzhen Heaven said grimly, "The demonic sects are truly detestable!"
"If we hadn't arrived in time to receive them, those