"O-Old Sect Master!"
The First Elder's aged eyes streamed with tears as he slammed his forehead against the hard stone floor.
His anguished sobs mingled endless grievance with the wild joy of finding salvation at death's door.
"You're really still alive!"
"Heaven has blessed our sect! Heaven hasn't forsaken the Clear Sky Sect!"
The Fourth Elder, Fifth Elder, and Sixth Elder were also weeping bitterly.
Their foreheads pressed against the icy floor, and they sobbed too hard to speak.
Just a few incense sticks' worth of time earlier, they had still been plunged into abyssal despair.
Sect Master Tang Xiao had died in battle.
Three elders had fallen.
The endless stretches of white mourning cloth had bent the backs of these old men.
The Clear Sky Sect had lost its backbone. Like a battered ship that had lost its helmsman amid raging winds and towering waves, it could shatter at any moment.
Now, the pillar that steadied the seas had returned!
A level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, invincible on land!
As long as Tang Chen was there,
even if the Spirit Hall were given a hundred times the nerve, it could forget about touching another hair on the Clear Sky Sect's head.
"Old Sect Master! You must seek justice for the Sect Master!"
The First Elder cried out through his tears.
"The Spirit Hall has gone too far!"
"Not only did they slaughter our affiliated Single-Attribute Four Clans, they even turned their butcher's blades on our main sect."
"Those beasts act with utter arrogance and hold our Clear Sky Sect in complete contempt. You must avenge our fallen Sect Master and elders!"
The Fourth Elder wiped his tears and pounded the floor as he wailed.
"Yes, Old Sect Master! They control the Heaven Dou Empire now and run roughshod over everyone."