"Yes, fellow disciples, the Southern Sea Dragon Palace has gone too far."
"If we sit by while it humiliates the Tianyan Sect like this today..."
"...then when the Southern Sea Dragon Palace comes knocking at the Heavenly Star Sect Mountain Gate, who can guarantee the other Alliance Sects of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea will send experts to help us?"
The two played off each other, their words thick with provocation.
In less than half an incense stick's time, many hot-blooded Heavenly Star Sect Elders and deacons, brimming with righteous anger, drew the swords at their waists and boarded the Treasure Ship to go to the Tianyan Sect's aid.
Seeing this, Gao Tongwei and Hou Yue'er were overjoyed. They had feared none of their fellow disciples would be willing to help the Tianyan Sect.
But just as the Heavenly Star Sect disciples had all boarded the Treasure Ship and were about to set off for the Tianyan Sect Mountain Gate,
a terrifying pressure swept in from the distant horizon, pinning every cultivator aboard the Treasure Ship. None could move an inch.
"You are merely two Outer Sect Stewards, yet you dare sow discord here."
"You even seek to destroy the peaceful relationship the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea have maintained with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace for countless years."
"I shall cripple your cultivation now, so you learn that sowing discord comes at a price in blood."
As he finished speaking, Lu Kexun, a Sunshine Sect Inner Sect Elder, suddenly appeared.
Clearly, the commotion caused by the Southern Sea Dragon Palace Seventh Prince's Manor had been too great for him to miss. He was both a Sunshine Sect Inner Sect Elder and the current Azure Underworld Cloud City Lord.
To keep certain witless fools among the Nine