"Wait, Junior Brother!"
"What? You're still going to cover up this kind of behavior?!"
"This is Deputy Hall Master Tang Yue's Jade Talisman!"
Tang Yue was a deputy hall master of the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect's Law Enforcement Hall.
And not some outer-sect hall master like them, either. He was a true deputy hall master of the inner-sect Law Enforcement Hall, a giant of the Profound Penetration Realm!
"...So what?" he said, stubbornly jutting out his chin.
"Deputy Hall Master Tang Yue wouldn't concern himself with a small matter like this. Someone from the Tang family must be borrowing his name to throw their weight around," said the deputy hall master holding the Jade Talisman, calmly.
The sect-entry trial was adjusted to match the cultivation realm of each candidate. It was highly demanding, and competition was fierce.
So even in the Tang family, not everyone could join the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect.
Not to mention entering the inner sect directly through a trial like this.
The Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect had many outer-sect disciples, but very few inner-sect disciples—the fewest among the Seven Great Immortal Sects.
If you couldn't pass the trial, even if you were a Void Return cultivator, you had to stay in the outer sect and behave yourself.
In the past, even the Founder Ancestor himself would have cast his gaze down upon an event like this.
But this trial had come about suddenly. Perhaps they'd assumed it wouldn't draw the attention of so many high-level cultivators as previous trials had?
Then he looked up at the roster, his gaze settling on one of the names.
"I do have an idea."
Heh.
You wanted to pull this kind of stunt? Then let's see whose connections ran deeper.
Not long afterward, a black-robed steward came before the many Spirit