"Tongwei, was I too out of line earlier? Did I fail to show Sect Master Luo enough respect?"
Hearing this, Gao Tongwei smiled and shook her head. It was the first time she had seen such a look on her proud friend's face.
"Yue'er, you weren't just out of line. You showed none of the basic courtesy or respect due to a sect master."
"Uh... Then I won't take any of the rewards from this mission. Consider them my apology to that bra— to Sect Master Luo."
Hou Yue'er glared at her friend and muttered under her breath.
"I was worried that brat had only just emerged from the Tianyan Sect after it was sealed away for ages. He might not know what things are like in the Endless Sea."
"If he doesn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth and provokes someone he can't afford to offend, won't he bring disaster down on the Heavenly Star Sect—even the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea?"
"Besides, when the Tianyan Sect was destroyed, there were signs that the Primordial True Demon from the upper realm and the Endless Sea Aquatic Clans were behind it."
"There's nothing wrong with being careful."
Inside a dark, dank, cramped earthen cavern.
Fear was written across one pale face after another.
Weapons of every kind in hand, they crowded around the entrance to a slightly roomier Cave Abode, shielding the young and old behind them.
The tremendous commotion that had repeatedly sounded from above, along with the terrifying waves of violent energy sweeping in every direction,
had left the Demon Abomination Race trembling with fear even in their underground refuge.
When they sensed the two powerful Arrays set up earlier vanish one after the other, they came close to despair.
Even