No Other Choice Remained

"The activation of this secret treasure required gathering everyone's spiritual power to drive it in the first place. After every use, it had to be recharged again. Every elder had calculations of their own—how could they possibly be willing to watch Yun Xingyu use something like this?"

True Person Huai Jin cleared up Ye Xiu's confusion.

"So, by the sound of it, your Myriad Clouds Sect isn't all that united internally either."

Ye Xiu smiled.

True Person Huai Jin paid no heed to the trace of mockery in Ye Xiu's tone.

Or rather, with matters having reached this point, what was there left for him to defend?

"If everyone in the Myriad Clouds Sect had continued following the old rules, I would not have needed to leave the sect and establish a new branch of my own."

A trace of nostalgia flashed through his eyes, only to be swiftly replaced by cold indifference.

"Enough of that. Earlier, you urged everyone to rebel, saying you could help me maximize my gains. Now that things have come to this, shouldn't you and I enter the fray?"

True Person Huai Jin was itching for action.

After all, as an elder of the Myriad Clouds Sect proper, his understanding of this secret treasure far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Yun Xingyu could use this thing to suppress the sect masters before him, but suppressing him was beyond its capabilities.

"What's the rush?"

Ye Xiu smiled and waved his hand. "Do you really want to flee far away carrying the label of a traitor—or a loser in a power struggle?"

"Northern Province is your homeland. Your disciples must have operated there for many years. Your cultivation is powerful enough that changing regions would not affect you in the slightest, but could they do the same?