"The Myriad Formation Spirit Palace? Lin Xiao?"
Xuan Kongzi looked stunned.
He had not expected the Ye Family to trade its permanent elder seat at Danta for one chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame, only to give that chance to an outsider!
He could not make sense of it.
Xuan Kongzi was not alone. Many of the onlookers now wore strange expressions as their gazes shifted between the Ye Family's party and Xiao Lin.
"Lin Xiao really did get that chance from the Ye Family!"
The head of the Dan Family looked surprised, but his expression soon turned to one of understanding.
The members of the White Household, Qiu Family, and Cao Family also exchanged glances.
After all, Xiao Lin had visited all three families earlier.
But they had refused his request.
They had considered the possibility that the Ye Family might agree, though they had put the odds at less than half.
Yet Lin Xiao had made that slim possibility a reality!
For a moment, the people of the other Four Great Clans wore complicated expressions.
They wondered what price Xiao Lin had paid, even as they regretted losing the Ye Family as a rival.
Once the Ye Family lost its permanent elder seat at Danta, it could no longer stand against the other four families.
The other onlookers, who knew nothing of the arrangement, stared with eyes wide open.
"You've got to be kidding! It was bad enough that the Ye Family traded its permanent elder seat for one chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Now they're giving that chance away? Has the whole family gone mad?"
"Exactly! That decision makes me wonder if they used their brains at all!"
"What is it about the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace and Lin Xiao that could