Every word of those declarations rang like evening drums and morning bells, striking the chests of the cultivators present like a mighty hammer.
At these words, many cultivators were stirred, their faces revealing indignation born of shared suffering.
Some even looked at the rippling Mountain-Protecting Array overhead not with fear, but with minds racing, already beginning to form plans.
All the cultivators of the inner sect were once again thrown into turmoil by this sudden speech.
Xi Longxuan knew that if this continued, the situation would spiral out of control. Fury blazed in his eyes. Ignoring his injuries and the sinister, poisonous energy surging within him, he swept his gaze and Divine Sense across the gathering, locking onto a figure in the crowd in the blink of an eye.
The man looked young and was only at the early Golden Core stage. Xi Longxuan recognized him at a glance: Lin Ran, a newly advanced Golden Pill Cultivator.
More than thirty Golden Pill Cultivators clustered around him.
Most of those thirty-odd cultivators had returned from the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm years ago. According to their account upon returning, although the Disciplinary Hall faction had obtained the inheritance of the Heavenly Evolution Token, its members had unexpectedly perished because of the inheritance's terrifying power.
Strictly speaking, both Lin Ran and these cultivators belonged to his sect master's faction and were his trusted subordinates. They had contributed greatly to his efforts to strip the Disciplinary Hall of its authority and seize complete control of the Phantom Star Sect.
For that very reason, although he had always harbored doubts about their account, Xi Longxuan had never investigated further. After all, he could be considered the greatest beneficiary of the affair.
But now... seeing these people act this way, Xi Longxuan suddenly felt a terrible