The sudden distress signal shattered the tense atmosphere at the scene.
In Feng Jun's eyes, Yi Jue's manner was somewhat too domineering. Yet in truth, none of the True Venerables present found it particularly surprising.
Geniuses had the quirks of geniuses. To cultivators, such things were not entirely unacceptable.
Even Jiu Qing, known as the Sect Nemesis, had consecutively betrayed several sects back then. The sect faction had merely thought him too self-centered. So long as he had not specifically provoked anyone, no one had gone out of their way to deal with him.
It was only because something shady had happened within the Beast-Taming Dao, and they wanted to make him take the blame, that he got dragged into trouble.
Yi Jue was much the same. Not only had she left the Grand Void Sect for the Spirit Plant Path, but she had also ignored everyone's advice and staked everything on divining "Yearning for Sweet Rain."
Coupled with her astonishingly rapid advancement, even those who had never met her could guess that she was not someone easy to get along with.
As for her being unreasonable when facing the Ji Clan? That was even more normal. Had the Ji Clan's True Venerables been reasonable from the start?
As a True Venerable, without a little temper and the ability to fight for one's faction's interests, one would instead be looked down upon.
Even Yi Jue herself felt that she had not gone too far, and she had even planned to stubbornly confront another two.
But now that the Spirit Plant Sect had sent out a distress signal, she had no mind for this dispute.
Something enormous must have happened!
Calling for help from Nascent Souls generally did not mean much, because Heavenly Zither had plenty of Nascent Souls. But how