For various reasons.
The thoughts in the hearts of the people from the various factions were all shaken.
After a moment of thought, they all headed into the distance, leaving only the young man from the Kong Family behind.
The change in numbers immediately made the Kong Family youth's expression grow even uglier.
"Kid, are you still going to persist?"
Qin Shaofeng looked at the youth standing proudly where he was. The wicked smile curling at the corner of his lips seemed to become even more terrifying.
"Why wouldn't I persist?"
The youth seemed utterly unaffected by being isolated.
Just as Qin Shaofeng was about to speak.
A voice transmission entered his ear. "Shaofeng, the Kong Family members have left."
"They left? Interesting."
The wicked smile remained on Qin Shaofeng's lips as he said solemnly to the proud figure below, "There's something I need to tell you. Because of your persistence, your Lineage has abandoned you."
"So what?"
The youth's expression did not change. "How glorious was my Kong Family several hundred years ago? But with the death of Patriarch Xingzhi, the Lineage has already changed beyond recognition—selfish and self-serving, timid and afraid of trouble, knowing only how to bully its own people."
"I acknowledge that I am a member of the Kong Family, but I do not acknowledge the current main branch of the Kong Family as my elders."
"Though I, Kong Lan, have not cultivated for long, I have relied only on myself."
"The moment I stepped forward, I never thought that, after offending you, anyone from the Lineage would stand up to protect me."
Everyone below the Path to Heaven who had been watching this situation silently praised him in their hearts.
This kid might have overestimated himself a little.
But his unyielding, iron-clad backbone truly made