"However, this sect can tolerate its disciples leaving, and will not pursue the matter of the sect's years of cultivation. But it is absolutely forbidden for any of you to take so much as a blade of grass belonging to the sect when severing ties with it."
"Effective immediately, everyone is to cease cultivation for one day."
"Effective immediately, the sect's experts will begin a thorough investigation. Should anyone dare consume sect resources before leaving the sect, they will be killed without mercy!"
"Effective immediately, the sect's experts will inspect every disciple leaving the sect. Should anyone dare secretly hide and take away anything belonging to the sect, they will be killed without mercy!"
Two consecutive declarations of "killed without mercy" instantly transformed the previously rather amicable-sounding words.
The moment this matter erupted, the entire Chasing Stars Sect nearly exploded.
Countless upper echelons of the Chasing Stars Sect arrived outside the core hall almost at the same time, and request after request for an audience was continuously passed inside.
Yet the decision-makers had no mind to meet them at this moment.
Qin Shaofeng and Ximen Li were currently at the Chasing Stars Sect's back mountain.
This place was ordinarily known as the "Forbidden Saint Land." What the Chasing Stars Sect told the outside world was that a Saint-rank star beast was imprisoned within this mountain.
That beast was the Chasing Stars Sect's greatest danger, but also its final trump card.
Should the Chasing Stars Sect fall.
At the final moment, the Sect Master would open the seals here and release the Saint-rank star beast, perishing together with the enemy.
Naturally, such claims were bound to draw doubts from many people and factions.
Yet the Chasing Stars Sect had never shown any intention of explaining, and had even set up countless