"Yes, Sect Master Luo. The Dao-Merging Grounds may be valuable, but only cultivators who have reached at least Great Vehicle Perfection can use them!"
"Your cultivation has only just reached Great Vehicle Minor Accomplishment. You still have a long way to go before you can use the Dao-Merging Grounds."
"So why not hand over the Dao-Merging Grounds on the Tiannan Continent and let us old fellows, already half in our coffins, use them first?"
"After all, as a fellow cultivator, you should understand."
"When a cultivator pursuing the Ascension Path discovers that the road ahead has ended, and his lifespan has reached its end as well, what kind of irrational things might he do?"
"Are you threatening me?"
As the voices rang out, a playful smile curved Luo Yi's lips.
He had thought these people were merely pitiful souls trapped on the Ascension Path, unable to advance another inch.
Without the help of his system panel, he might have ended up like them, or even worse.
That was why he had still been hesitating over whether to kill them.
But the low, threatening words now ringing through the crowd made the choice for him.
"Sect Master Luo, we're not threatening you. We're reminding you."
"We hope you won't let unrealistic fantasies cloud your judgment and imagine that, with cultivation at Great Vehicle Minor Accomplishment, you can truly secure your position as Tianyan Sect Master."
Hearing the challenge in the young man's question, many of those present spoke up again with grave warnings.
"And one more reminder, Sect Master Luo: as time passes, more and more people will join us in contesting both the position of Tianyan Sect Master and the Dao-Merging Grounds on the Tiannan Continent."
"So if you think you can drag this out until the matter blows over,