The elder known as Gu Qing immediately gave a bitter smile upon hearing the Peak Seven-star Dou Sheng's question.
He knew that he would not escape a harsh reprimand this time.
Yet faced with the other's question, he still cupped his hands and said, "Senior Gu Dao, we were ordered by the clan head to search for the young miss. After sensing through the Soul Jade Pendant, we discovered that the young miss had been imprisoned by Lin Feng. When we told him to release her, not only did he refuse to comply, but he also brazenly attacked us. In the end, he wounded this junior and captured her."
"Gu Qing, I watched you grow up. I never expected you to become more useless with age!"
Before he could finish, the elder called Gu Dao immediately rebuked him. "That boy is merely a Four-star Dou Sheng, on the same level as the two of you. Yet you are telling me that in a two-against-one fight, one of you Four-star Dou Shengs was injured while the other was captured. Have you lived up to the clan's thousand years of cultivation?"
By the end, Gu Dao's face carried an expression of disappointment at their failure to meet expectations.
Truthfully, he had watched Gu Qing and the other grow up. He had always known the extent of their talent.
As long as they advanced steadily, they would eventually be able to replace old fellows like them and become the new Ancient Clan Three Immortals.
Yet they had suffered such a humiliating defeat this time. Once word returned to the clan, it would surely spark countless rumors.
If those rumors gave the two of them severe psychological obstacles, it would certainly be detrimental to their cultivation.
"Sigh..."
Thinking of this, Gu Dao could not