"Whoa! That Ning Fengzhi looks respectable enough, but he plays so dirty! He actually joined Spirit Hall too? We're going to be colleagues?!" Tuoba Xi was astonished as he walked out of the Papal Palace.
When he first arrived, he had wondered why Ning Fengzhi was also in the Papal Palace. So he had come to pledge allegiance.
"So Spirit Hall will have another lapdog from now on-the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? That won't do!"
"And this lapdog came running over to pledge allegiance just as His Holiness the Pope took office. No! I'll have to work even harder from now on. If the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect outshines us, won't our Holy Dragon Sect's standing in Spirit Hall's eyes fall?"
Although he had chosen to merge his sect into Spirit Hall back then, the merger still wasn't complete, was it? He had only sent the younger generation to study at the Spirit Academy and dispatched a group of Soul Masters to serve in Spirit Hall.
The Holy Dragon Sect still existed, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would probably follow the same model. They would have a competitor then.
"Still, Ning Fengzhi does know which way the wind blows!" Tuoba Xi said with a smile. "The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is already rotten to this extent. Rising again in the future will be harder than hard!"
"Joining Spirit Hall is definitely the best choice for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect right now! And coming to declare his loyalty on the very night the new Pope took office..."
"Forget it. No point dwelling on it. I just need to do my part. Whatever His Holiness the Pope does with the rest is his business! As the saying goes, thunder and rain alike are the sovereign's