The Ancestral Hall was deathly silent.
Chen Yuan stared at the azure Dao Tablet that symbolized sect privilege, his mind buzzing.
A guest elder?
How many years had it been since Azure Boundary Sect had produced a guest elder?!
When had such a person appeared?!
Lin Feiyan's eyes widened even further.
They had casually dragged in some random person to make up the numbers, yet somehow dragged in a sect guest elder?
Xu Liunian stood in the hall, his expression shifting between dark and bright.
A guest elder?
A guest elder of a Dao Sect held a status far above that of an ordinary inner disciple.
What exactly was this woman's background?
Jiang Yuechu propped her chin on one hand and quietly looked down at everyone.
"Why is everyone silent?"
"..."
Xu Liunian silently clenched his hand and remained speechless for a long while.
If she really was a guest elder of Azure Boundary Sect, she naturally had the authority to meddle in this matter... The position of guest elder stood aloof from worldly affairs.
She did not need to follow those rigid sect rules forbidding interference in the internal affairs of vassals. She could act entirely according to her own whims.
It was precisely because such existences were unrestrained that the Nine Great Dao Sects had stopped establishing new guest elders long ago, in order to maintain stability.
Xu Liunian's original plan had been flawless.
He would first use family affairs as an excuse to pacify these disciplined Azure Boundary Sect disciples.
Then he would slowly scheme in secret, using various methods to lure them outside the city and have that demon kill them.
But after a thousand calculations...
He had never expected that this group would provoke such an anomaly.
Xu Chunnian, who had collapsed on the ground,