If Yi Jue had not mentioned "the elders of so many sects," Coral would not have realized it at all. She examined them carefully. "Elder Cang Jing?"
She really was not familiar with Elder Duan Liang. Though she knew many people, Duan Liang was responsible for organizing cultivation techniques at the Grand Void Sect. It was perfectly normal for Yi Jue to meet him, while Coral had been one step short.
Elder Coral's face darkened. She felt she had been discriminated against. "We are all elders, so why can you make me leave? After the battle of the Spirit Wood Dao, the Spirit Plant Path's confidence has really soared. You no longer regard the other seventeen paths at all."
She did not dare provoke them first, but she had the courage to retaliate. Moreover, when the Spirit Wood Dao and Spirit Plant Path clashed, they usually had to win the other sixteen paths' moral support. If the two paths merged, their strength would greatly increase, so they also had to consider the reactions of the other factions.
She did not believe the other party would fail to consider this factor.
Yet Yi Jue had little regard for this "former Dao companion" of True Immortal Shouzhong. "I mean that private matters should be handled as private matters. Making such a public clamor of it will only make you a laughingstock."
Elder Coral grew even angrier. "Who said this is a private matter? Shouzhong previously promised me a number of artifact-refining materials. I was not in a hurry to demand them before, but now my path urgently needs them, and he has returned. That leaves me unable to answer to my sect. Does that not count as breaking a promise and going back on his word?"
Yi Jue blinked, not yet having