One stone stirred a thousand waves.
Everyone in the Sacred Academy seemed to have been struck by a Half-Sage's Three Seals of Silence, unable to utter a word.
They had thought the Western Sea Dragon Sage ruthless enough for declaring Fang Yun an enemy of the Western Sea Dragon Palace, but the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace was even more ferocious. It had severed ties with the Thunder Ancestor's descendants and was even going to investigate the Lei Family thoroughly.
Many scholars looked at Lei Tingzhen and the other members of the Lei Family in astonishment, suspicion appearing on their faces as they wondered what had happened between the Lei Family and the Dragon Race.
Lei Tingzhen and his clansmen stood as dumb as wooden chickens. Several of the younger Lei Family members had even been frightened witless.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible..."
Ever since its founding, the Lei Family had regarded itself as the Dragon Race's benefactor. Because the dragons treated them with such respect, they had long harbored the notion that they stood on equal footing with the Four Seas Dragon Palaces. Now, however, the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace had announced it was severing all contact with them. The news was nothing short of a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
Once all the dragons severed contact with the Lei Family, everything it had possessed might cease to exist. Without the Dragon Race's support, the Lei Family would be nothing more than an ordinary wealthy lineage, doomed to decline within a century.
Gao Mo nodded, looked at Zong Ganyu, and asked, "Since the Eastern Sea Dragon Sage has issued a Sage Edict, can the Sacred Academy declare the Lei Family guilty, according to what you said earlier?"
"This matter... the two Sages' edicts contradict each other. We must consider it at length,