The moment those words were spoken, gazes flickered both inside and outside Shuxuan Tower, all converging on him, while the emotions stirred were even more tangled and shifting.
Quite a number of people even felt a flicker of pleasant surprise:
Once Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu left, would his weakness be laid bare?
As the focus of everyone's eyes, Daoist Qianbao was slightly taken aback. Yet he was a man with seven apertures and a crystal-clear heart. He laughed heartily, asked no further questions, and rose straight to his feet.
"Fine! For your master's sake, this uncle-master will reluctantly do you a favor. No payment needed—I'll help you for free!"
He seemed to be joking, but in truth, he had ruled out the possibility of Li Chen Sect taking part in the distribution here.
Even so, this only dispelled a tiny fraction of certain people's doubts.
Daoist Qianbao strolled out of Shuxuan Tower to seek his opponent. His steps were unhurried, but his thoughts turned with extraordinary speed.
He had not come here merely to watch the spectacle, nor had he come, as he had told Yu Ci, simply to make up the numbers and neutralize a strong opponent.
Beneath that smiling, laughing exterior, Daoist Qianbao had been watching coldly all along.
For countless years, Li Chen Sect and the Xiyu Alliance had been linked by a thousand threads and ten thousand ties. As a core disciple of the former, Daoist Qianbao frequently traveled between them and understood the local ecology better than anyone. In some respects, he knew it even better than certain people within the Xiyu Alliance itself.
He had been pondering why Zhengyi Dao and the Sea Merchant Guild had suddenly emerged from the flank.
Anyone with eyes could see that these two had stepped forward to contend for