"Calm your anger, Fellow Daoist Qingyun! Calm your anger!"
At once, a True Lord from the Daoist Temple stepped forward to smooth things over. He was Qin Hu, the Divine Bridge Realm patriarch of the Yanyi Dunjia Sect.
He personally poured Shen Mo a cup of wine and said with a genial smile, "Sect Master Qin did not deliberately misappropriate your spiritual treasures. She was merely forced into it by the perilous circumstances. Moreover, these Enlightenment Teas were not consumed by the Ancient Vine Sect alone. Every year's output of spirit tea was handed over to the Heaven-Patrolling Daoist Temple, then uniformly allocated and distributed by the Temple! The same was true for the other sects as well..."
"Sect Master Qin acted upon our decree. I hope Fellow Daoist Qingyun will not blame her."
"Now that the Heaven-Patrolling Daoist Temple and the forces under its jurisdiction have enjoyed stability for more than a dozen years, we can still scrape together some spiritual treasures. How about using other spiritual treasures in place of Enlightenment Tea, to settle the old debt between the Ancient Vine Sect and you, Fellow Daoist?"
The Yanyi Dunjia Sect had always maintained a good relationship with the Ancient Vine Sect.
Back when Lin Zhaozai escaped, Qin Wenzhen, fearing that this heretical True Lord would recover his strength and return to massacre the Ancient Vine Sect, had taken out more than half the cultivation resources earned during the years when the Ancient Immortal-Demon Battlefield appeared, along with the sect's reserves, and poured them into constructing the mountain-protecting grand formation.
The one responsible for this matter had been a Formation Dao grandmaster from the Yanyi Dunjia Sect, allowing that sect to make a fortune as well.
Furthermore, most of the Enlightenment Tea produced by the Ancient Vine Sect had