What will the Spirit Hall do next? A terrified Ning Fengzhi!

Inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's main hall, the atmosphere was unusually oppressive. Sect Master Ning Fengzhi and the sect-protecting elders Chen Xin and Gu Rong were all present.

After reading the intelligence in his hand, Ning Fengzhi's face filled with shock. He then passed the letter to Chen Xin and Gu Rong.

"Take a look for yourselves. I truly never expected Spirit Hall to move so quickly—and so urgently!"

Chen Xin took the letter and read through it at great speed. After finishing, he handed it to Gu Rong. "Spirit Hall's power is truly beyond imagination!"

"Are you kidding me? Overnight, Spirit Hall wiped out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects?!" Gu Rong exclaimed in shock.

"No one expected them to act so fast, so urgently, and with such ruthlessness. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had thousands of people from top to bottom, yet not a single one survived?!"

"Moreover, Spirit Hall's people are still hunting down Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect disciples who were training outside, determined to wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul's lineage!" Ning Fengzhi rubbed his throbbing brow.

"Isn't Spirit Hall being far too tyrannical? The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was one of the Upper Three Sects, yet they destroyed it just because they said so. What are they trying to do?" Gu Rong said angrily.

Today, Spirit Hall could destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Would they be able to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect tomorrow?

"Watch your words, old bones! If Spirit Hall hadn't done this, that would have been truly strange!" Chen Xin said. "The letter makes it very clear why Spirit Hall destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect."

"Moreover, Spirit Hall gave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect an entire year. But what did the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect do?"

"They did nothing. They didn't even go to Spirit Hall to offer compensation; they simply ignored it. If something like this had happened to our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I think the sect master would have been furious too. He probably wouldn't even have given them a year!"

Gu Rong listened in a daze before nodding slightly. Chen Xin's reasoning made sense, and he had considered it as well. He was merely worried that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would one day follow in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's footsteps.

"Furthermore, Spirit Hall does not seem to intend to deny it. Every sign points to them being responsible! They are taking revenge—revenge for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's arrogance!" Ning Fengzhi said slowly.

"But... wasn't Spirit Hall's saintess betraying Spirit Hall an internal matter for Spirit Hall? Why take it out on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect? And isn't this punishment a bit too severe?" Gu Rong asked.

"Severe? Not at all!" As the sect master, Ning Fengzhi saw matters of this sort more clearly than Gu Rong did.

"Who was Spirit Hall's saintess? Barring any accident, she would have become the next pope. What did it mean for the next pope to betray Spirit Hall?"

Ning Fengzhi swept his gaze over the others and slowly said, "If the heir to the next sect master of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect betrayed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I think you would be even more ruthless than Spirit Hall!"

Chen Xin and Gu Rong nodded slightly at his words. That was indeed the logic of it. If the next sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had betrayed them...

Heh heh! The two of them would have wanted nothing more than to tear that person into ten thousand pieces!

"Most importantly, this matter was no longer something Spirit Hall could handle internally. This pope... had likely long been dissatisfied with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and wanted to move against them. That was why he made the matter known to the entire world!"

"And among countless paths to survival, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect ultimately chose a dead end..."

"If, when the matter first happened, they had gone to Spirit Hall to apologize and offer compensation, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect would not have ended up like this!"

"But they arrogantly believed that as long as Spirit Hall did not come after them, they would be fine?" Ning Fengzhi gave a bitter smile. "Yu Yuanzhen had been shrewd all his life, only to be foolish at this one crucial moment!"

"Because of one piece of trash, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's foundation of thousands of years was reduced to nothing. I wonder whether he regretted it in the end?"

"Perhaps he did, but it was already too late. Spirit Hall had truly been enraged, and they had struck to kill."

Ning Fengzhi slowly rose to his feet and walked outside the main hall. Before his eyes lay the prosperous sight of Seven Treasure City.

Chen Xin and Gu Rong remained by Ning Fengzhi's side.

"Spirit Hall has done something so earth-shattering. The continent's balance is about to change... We once naively believed that as long as the Upper Three Sects stood together, we might still have a way to contend with Spirit Hall. But now, it seems..."

"If Spirit Hall truly made up its mind to strike at one of the Upper Three Sects, that sect would be destroyed before it could even wait for aid from the other Upper Three Sects."

Ning Fengzhi sighed softly. "You have both read the intelligence in the letter. Outsiders all say Spirit Hall was merciful to give the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect a year to atone for its sins. What do you think?"

"Uh..." Chen Xin did not know what to say. The facts were as they were; Spirit Hall truly had been rather merciful.

They had actually given the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect an entire year. Regardless of whatever schemes lay behind it, Spirit Hall certainly appeared merciful.

"Although Spirit Hall destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect in this operation, they gained even greater renown and prestige..."

"Alas..." Ning Fengzhi sighed slowly. "These are troubled times. I wonder what Spirit Hall's next plan will be. Will they stop here, or are they preparing to turn their blades on our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Clear Sky Sect?"

"Surely not..." Chen Xin frowned.

"Why not? This pope is deeply calculating and far-sighted. A year ago, could we have imagined that everything he did was actually for the sake of destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect?"

Ning Fengzhi said, "We have all underestimated Spirit Hall's leader, and underestimated Spirit Hall itself!"

"For the time being, we must do nothing. We will simply watch and see what plans Spirit Hall has!"

"I hope my guesses are wrong. If Spirit Hall truly intends to move against our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Clear Sky Sect, then the continent's balance will be thrown into complete chaos."

"If every one of my guesses is wrong, then Spirit Hall's next step will be to nominate a new member of the Upper Three Sects to fill the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's vacancy!"

The Upper Three Sects were called the Upper Three Sects because they were the three strongest among the seven great sects. The remaining four were the Lower Four Sects.

If nothing unexpected happened, the new member of the Upper Three Sects would probably be selected from among the Lower Four Sects.

Chen Xin and Gu Rong understood such matters far less deeply than Ning Fengzhi did, but now that Ning Fengzhi had laid it all bare, they could not help beginning to worry as well.

If Spirit Hall truly came for them, could the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect really withstand it? Judging by the strength Spirit Hall had displayed thus far, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect likely...