Autumn winds swept past the hall, bleak and biting.
As the young girl's cool voice slowly faded,
the vast Ancestral Hall sank into a silence so complete you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone present, no matter their status, was utterly bewildered by the girl's casual, imperious manner.
As for the members of the Xu Clan,
apart from the clan head kneeling on the ground, most of them had not laid eyes on a great cultivator from the Azure Boundary Sect in a long time.
Now that they had,
only one thought remained in their minds.
So this was how a Dao Sect carried itself!
So domineering, so utterly disdainful of everyone around them...
And yet, somehow, it all seemed perfectly natural.
Lin Feiyan and the others standing by the doorway wore a whole range of expressions.
Gong Shaoqi swallowed, edged closer, and whispered to Lin Feiyan, "Senior Sister... why does it feel like she's got way more presence than you do..."
The two of them were, after all, core disciples of the Azure Boundary Sect.
Usually, even if they were clueless about the ways of the world, they could still throw their weight around inside the sect.
But even so, she had never imagined that someone could put on such airs while out and about!
For a moment,
the heaven's favored daughter felt as if a door to a whole new world had swung open before her.
Her beautiful eyes shone as she stared blankly at the white-robed girl seated in the place of honor, lost in thought. She could not even be bothered to answer Gong Shaoqi.
Of them all, Chen Yuan was the most troubled.
Watching Jiang Yuechu seated on the sandalwood chair, he felt a headache coming on.
It was true that he and the others