"Martial Uncle, it is not that this disciple is helping outsiders bully our own. The Investiture of the Gods was something the three sects discussed and signed in the Green Tour Palace. All the martial uncles and elders were present at the time—how could you not know? Furthermore, Western Qi was destined to rise and Cheng Tang to fall. This was decreed by the Saints and cannot be changed. If Senior Brother Fire Spirit wished to avenge this disciple, he could have sought out the one who killed him. Why did he have to obstruct Western Qi's great undertaking, defy the heavenly order, and create slaughter karma for nothing? To defy this heavenly order—even how could Grandmaster spare her?"
Without waiting for the four immortals to speak, he continued, "This disciple knows that Martial Uncle and the others bear grievances. Although Senior Brother Fire Spirit was at fault first, it was also wrong of Guangchengzi to show no regard for their fellow discipleship and strike with lethal force. But even if one wished to take revenge, one should not have acted so rashly. Grandmaster had just ordered him to leave, yet Martial Uncle and the others were about to seize him by force before Grandmaster's gate at our Green Tour Palace. This would only shame Grandmaster and let others mock our Interception Sect for knowing neither rank nor propriety, for disrespecting our elders, and for using power to bully others, ganging up on the few with the many."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Daoist Duobao asked.
Among the third-generation disciples of the Interception Sect, Ling Qing now possessed the greatest fortune and potential, so the immortals of the sect were willing to hear him out.
Even Daoist Duobao held him in high regard. Seeing this, he asked