"Rumble!" A peal of thunder crashed across the sky above the Kunlun Sword Sect.
In a cave, a middle-aged man dressed in blue furrowed his brow slightly.
Dongfang Nishang, watching Dantai Xiaoxue practice her swordsmanship by the mountain stream, sent her a message. "Junior Sister, who provoked your senior brother?"
Dongfang Nishang smiled faintly. "Your subordinate, Yang Xu. He said your precious disciple is the Demoness's follower, and that he'll behead him in front of everyone under heaven..."
The middle-aged man furrowed his brow again. "What about the Law Enforcement Elder?"
Dongfang Nishang shook her head. "The Law Enforcement Elder is just watching the show. This matter is already beyond his control... Senior Brother, keep cultivating in seclusion. There's nothing you can do about this."
"From now on, none of the Sword Sect's disciples, save my two disciples, are to go south of Kunlun. Otherwise, I fear they'll go and never return!"
The middle-aged man let out a long sigh.
He muttered to himself, "I only went into seclusion. How did they manage to cause such a huge mess?"
Dongfang Nishang waved a hand. "Even if you came out of seclusion now, it'd be too late. Some seeds were already planted during the Sword Sect's spring recruitment trials."
Before long, Yang Xu was standing atop the five-zhang-high arena.
As an elder of the Kunlun Sword Sect, Yang Xu had never thought to ask the Law Enforcement Elder's opinion.
He hadn't even considered how the sect leader, still in seclusion, would decide the matter before him.
He wanted to reclaim from Wang Xian all the humiliation he'd suffered at the Demoness's hands back then.
For that, he was willing to drag the Kunlun Sword Sect into a break with the Old Daoist of Cloud-Rising Taoist Temple!
But Wang Xian paid