The moment the word "discuss" left his lips, flames outside the window surged brightly, and Jin Huan's teeth-gritting voice boomed over: "Yu Ci, you brat, for your own selfish desires..."
Before he could finish, Shi Song's laughter joined in. "The many defeat the few; the crowd defeats the lone. Jin Huan, when you ran wild and tyrannized your fellow cultivators, did you ever imagine this day would come?"
Looking out the window, the blaze in the night sky was suppressed once more. That enormous serpent shadow, thick enough to require an embrace, wound upward through the sky. Ignoring how the scorching flames charred its flesh, it twisted and coiled, enclosing Jin Huan and the "Myriad Radiance Pearl" within. Its rumbling was like millstones grinding, rolling and tumbling through the heavens before departing Tianyi Tower's airspace in the blink of an eye.
Yu Ci smiled faintly. After reaching the first floor, he turned and headed back upstairs. "That one with objections has left. Does anyone else have any?"
As he spoke, groups of three to five figures above the Spirit Communion realm led elite warriors through each floor. They prowled like wolves and tigers, yet also like sieves, sifting through the crowd. Those who had tried to fish in troubled waters amid the chaos were immediately restrained. Though it could not be called heaven's net, vast and wide, its deterrent was formidable. Those harboring restless thoughts could not help growing wary at the sight. The sharp-eyed also noticed that after the initial chaos, every Bai Ri Mansion member mixed into the crowd had been cleanly picked out and brought under control.
When Yu Ci once again reached the stairway to the fourth floor, someone came up behind him.
"All Bai Ri Mansion personnel have been dealt with: two stewards, seven deacons,