"Hmph, behave yourselves. These are extraordinary times; we'd do best to keep our heads down. Let them gossip all they want—after all, their mouths are on their own faces."
"Public opinion isn't frightening. A lack of strength is. Public opinion is merely proof of weakness. As long as I still live, my Blazing Fire Sect will forever remain the foremost power in all of Yu Commandery. Would the forces, great and small, throughout Yu Commandery dare disobey the orders of my Blazing Fire Sect?"
"Leave. Keep your own disciples in line. It's best not to stir up trouble now. If you provoke someone you can't afford to offend, even I won't be able to protect you."
The middle-aged man looked at the various elders below and warned them.
After everything that had happened, he too sensed that something was amiss.
First, the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment had been exposed. Then the Shangguan Family had been wiped out. After that, the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect lost two Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals. Finally, that great person had personally descended.
This entire chain of events had taken place within a mere ten years. No matter how foolish he was, he could tell something was wrong.
Even a supreme force like the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect, one of the foremost powers in the Anlan Great World, had suffered such tremendous upheaval. His tiny Blazing Fire Sect could not withstand any more turmoil.
He was merely a petty man who had stumbled into his current position through blind luck. He had no lofty ambitions, only the desire to guard his own little patch of land and enjoy life.
He had no wish to keep courting death.
Those two ruthless figures who had wiped out the Shangguan Family and consecutively slain two Primordial Unity