The speaker was none other than True Immortal Yi Jue, an elder of the Spirit Plant Path.
She looked helplessly at Dou De. "Someone harmed the Grand Void Sect's interests. It would've been fine if you beat or killed them... but how could you handle it like this?"
She mimicked Dou De's expression from earlier—not perfectly, but she captured a bit of its essence.
Then her face turned cold as she stared expressionlessly at the other party.
Dou De was a little bewildered when he heard that. Was she... speaking up for the Grand Void Sect? "May I ask how to address you, Immortal?"
True Immortal Yi Jue kept a cold face and said nothing. The barefoot man, however, laughed. "You really have no eye for people. You're a Grand Void disciple, yet you don't even recognize True Immortal Yi Jue, who came from your Grand Void Sect?"
"True Immortal Yi Jue?" Dou De was utterly shocked. He hurriedly cupped his hands. "Greetings, Martial Aunt... This disciple was born late and has never met Martial Aunt, but I have long heard Martial Aunt's great name..."
"You needn't call me Martial Aunt." True Immortal Yi Jue waved a hand and spoke coldly. "I've already left Grand Void. I am now an elder of the Spirit Plant Path, so there is no need to consider my feelings."
That was what she said, but if not for that connection, would True Immortal Shouzhong have needed to invite a Nascent Soul High Stage cultivator like her to Yiyao? After all, True Immortal Yi Jue was famously difficult to deal with in the Spirit Plant Path.
So why had Yi Jue, once a genius disciple of the Grand Void Sect, switched to the Spirit Plant Path? That had to begin with the structure of the