The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joins; the tower master truly is young and accomplished

The moment those words left her lips, the entire reception room fell into a deathly silence.

Elder Wu, seated beside Ning Yunyun, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng, listening behind them, all stared with eyes wide in disbelief, as though they had heard some fantastical tale.

"Y-young mistress-what did the sect master just-say?" Wu Feng lowered her voice, her tone filled with horror.

Ning Tian swallowed with difficulty, her mind utterly blank. "Th-this-"

Even Ye Chenxing could not help freezing.

He had only intended to put some pressure on them and squeeze out a little more of their remaining value. Never had he imagined that this seemingly dignified, elegant female sect master possessed such earth-shaking resolve.

Appearances truly could deceive! A seemingly fragile woman, faced with a critical moment that would decide her sect's fate, actually dared to close her eyes and go all in!

In sheer willingness to smash the cauldrons and sink the boats, she might even have surpassed Ning Fengzhi, who had staked everything on Tang San ten thousand years ago.

"You truly have taken me by surprise, Sect Master Ning." Ye Chenxing's eyes flickered as he offered his heartfelt admiration.

"Absolutely not!"

Only then did Elder Wu snap out of her daze.

What had she just heard? The sect master intended to hand over the entire sect on a silver platter?!

Shocked to her core, she no longer cared about rank or status. She rebuked Ning Yunyun sharply in the tone of an elder. "Yunyun, do you realize what madness you're spouting?! How can you treat the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's ten-thousand-year legacy as a game and simply give it away?!"

Elder Wu was not a member of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's founding clan, so she naturally had no fanatical attachment to its