Likewise, no names had been mentioned, but the remark had been vicious indeed.
If not a sage, then a petty man?
The one who had just said the situation was "ambiguous" was... just as ambiguous on this matter.
For no other reason than that the one answering him was Xin Yi, seated in the place of honor among the guests!
Let alone Xin Yi's backing from the Eight Sceneries Palace, even taken on his own, with his peerless mastery of artifact refinement and talisman arts, and his supreme divine ability of a Self-Created World, even an Earth Immortal would give him three parts deference. Among those present, apart from a handful such as Madam Xia and Chu Yuanxiang, who was qualified to seriously dispute with him?
On the other side, Daoist Qianbao recognized that the first to speak had been Kan Xingli, Hall Master of the Hall of Benevolence in the Azure Wave Water Mansion.
As the southernmost earth-rank sect in the Xiyu Alliance, although it commanded the golden waterway of the Cang River, it had always stood somewhat apart from the core. Yet as the Northern Demonic Tribulation broke out everywhere, its geographical disadvantage had instead become an advantage. For more than a decade, it had huddled along the banks of the Cang River, making a fortune in silence. It was said that its strength had risen at an astonishing pace.
Though Kan Xingli was a Longevity True Man, within the Azure Wave Water Mansion he was probably ranked sixth or fifth. In the Xiyu Alliance, he would likely not even make the top hundred. Here in Shuxuan Tower, he might contend with Daoist Qianbao over seating order, but he certainly lacked the nerve to stand against Xin Yi.
Fortunately, those able to sit inside Shuxuan Tower were, if