Ye Tianxiong spoke with heartfelt sincerity, his analysis penetrating to the core. Many sect higher-ups and Grand Elders below secretly nodded in agreement, and their disappointment over Ye Tianxiong's loss of control eased somewhat.
Ye Tianxiong had indeed accomplished many great things for the sect during his years as Sect Master, bringing immense benefits. The sect's strength had flourished, growing ever more prosperous.
Moreover, generations of the two Founding Families had intermarried; it was indeed an established custom.
If the engagement were suddenly canceled and that custom broken, the repercussions would be impossible to predict.
"You keep talking about the sect's interests. So this is your Ye Family's reason for colluding with the Liu Family to scheme against my Chu Family's young master, the sect's Holy Son?" Chu Tianyun sneered repeatedly. "And this is your reason, as Sect Master, for colluding with Heavenly Fortune Dao Venerable to dig out the Eye of the Heavenly Dao from my nephew's brow.
"And Ye Tianxiong, you still have the nerve to mention how you exhausted yourself for the sect? Yet you do not utter a single word about my elder brother Chu Tianwang's contributions.
"For all these years, in order to consider the bigger picture of the sect and cooperate with you, his sworn brother through life and death, how many of the Chu Family's interests has my elder brother sacrificed? How often has he swallowed humiliation and compromised?
"Without the Chu Family's cooperation, do you think you could have accomplished so much? What a colossal joke."
Chu Tianyun's Killing Intent surged into the heavens. The Star Tiger Saber in his hand gleamed with a chilling light. "So this is how you repay my elder brother? How you repay my Chu Family?"
"Now that everything has been laid bare, if you don't explain