The Jie Sect gave Haotian no pleasant looks either.
They had been forced to "get on the list and work," resentment and unwillingness pent up in their hearts. It would have been strange if they could be happy.
After they fell, even though the Investiture of the Gods List preserved their True Spirits, and during the formal investiture, Heavenly Dao power was used to advance incense offerings on credit, reshaping their Physical Bodies and restoring their cultivation from before death, this did not come without a price.
They needed to use the incense offerings accumulated through their divine posts to repay this "Divine Path debt."
Only after they paid off the "debt" could they hope for further cultivation.
If Tongtian had been suppressed by Hongjun and locked away in the Purple Cloud Palace, leaving the Jie Sect without a leader, perhaps these listed disciples would have restrained themselves somewhat.
But now, Tongtian Sect Master was still in Biyou Palace on Golden Turtle Island.
With a Saint backing them, the spines of these Jie Sect Orthodox Gods were naturally stiff.
Even if we're on the list, we're still Jie Sect disciples! Who do you think you are, Haotian? What right do you have to make us bow and scrape?
Moreover, the Investiture of the Gods List was still clutched in the hands of the Chan Sect.
Haotian had not even touched the edge of the Investiture of the Gods List, yet he was already thinking of throwing his Heavenly Emperor weight around before us Jie Sect disciples?
He could come put on airs after he got the Investiture of the Gods List in his hands.
The assembled officials in the hall merely gave Haotian a cupped-hands salute, as if meeting a peer or a colleague. There was not much of a