"If Ye Han is gone, we can find another. But if our Heaven's Mandate Sect's inheritance leaks out, it won't just cost us face-our very roots will be dug up! What if someone soon uses the Heaven's Mandate Orthodox Canon to devise a way to counter us? What will we do then?"
"Then we can only employ the Great Heaven's Mandate Arts."
"Then use them. Use them now, immediately!"
The elders exchanged glances, and the seventh elder rose. "Let this old man do it."
Everyone sat in the Heaven's Mandate Hall, waiting quietly.
Before long, the earth shook, and a beam of divine light shot into the sky.
Their expressions eased.
"Now that we've employed the Great Heaven's Mandate Arts, everything will be resolved as readily as bamboo splits before a blade."
"Hmph, once we find out whose little brat did this, we'll break his legs first, then throw him into the cold pool to reflect on his mistakes for ten years."
"A useless wretch like that made us expend the Great Heaven's Mandate Arts. We might as well kill him."
"He is one of our own, after all. Let's see how things stand first. If there are no losses, there's no need to muster an army over it."
"True."
As they chatted, they saw the seventh elder slowly enter, his arms hanging limp and his eyes dull.
"How did it go?"
The seventh elder continued staring blankly ahead.
"Seventh!" the grand elder called sharply.
The seventh elder jolted awake, then looked around at the elders and slowly said, "The Great Heaven's Mandate Arts were obscured by a powerful force. They failed."
"What?"
Everyone exchanged bewildered looks. Suddenly, a middle-aged Fate Arts Master rushed to the entrance and announced loudly, "Reporting to the elders! The Cabinet has issued a document