The Sunshine Sect Dao Seed had a fine idea, but as he felt the gazes turning toward him, his heart sank.
The demons and cultivators in the hall might have found one another unbearable earlier. Some had even seemed ready to come to blows.
Now, however, they all looked his way and presented a united front.
Perhaps ninety-nine percent of the factions present had never held a grudge against the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea. Most had never even encountered them.
But their instinctive rejection of an outside power meddling in local affairs needed no reason.
In an instant, the Sunshine Sect Dao Seed became the only outsider in the hall simply by standing up.
"Everyone..."
An elder of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect, who had indirectly benefited from the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea in the Pearl-Curtain Blessed Land, had just begun to speak up for them when Qi Zhentian, the Inner Sect Grand Elder, silenced him with a look.
Judging by the situation, if the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect did not want to become everyone's target as that man had,
it had best remember that it was a faction of the Northern Endless Sea and not let a moment of hotheadedness put it on the wrong side.
That held true even though the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect was nominally the foremost Human Race cultivator faction in the Northern Endless Sea.
Besides, the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea were a dominant power in the Southern Endless Sea, backed by eight Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Powerhouses.
Even the North Sea Dragon Palace, the strongest faction in the Northern Endless Sea, was no match for them in a direct comparison.
If such a colossus could not handle this little matter today, it was nothing but an impressive facade.
And if that was the