"Disciple..."
Fu Qiongzhu still wanted to argue.
"The way of chess values losing a piece over losing the initiative."
The Azure King Valley master did not care what she wanted to say and continued directly.
"Tell me, what is the most important matter for our sect right now?"
"Reporting to the Sect Master, it is the holding of the Cloud Pill Assembly."
"The Cloud Pill Assembly has been held once a year. This year marks its thirty-fourth year, and for all thirty-four years, it has gone smoothly. It has drawn many talents skilled in alchemy to our sect and provided us with no small number of pill formulas."
"Thirty-four years of painstaking management have finally built up today's flourishing scene, and you, Qiongzhu, have contributed to it. Such painstaking effort absolutely cannot be ruined over a minor matter. Yet you acted rashly. It is not that our Azure King Valley cannot afford to offend the Longevity Sect, but that all things have their order of urgency and importance."
"Can you not distinguish which is weightier and which is lighter?"
The Sect Master's words were exceedingly calm, yet Fu Qiongzhu's heart churned with a whole mélange of emotions.
She had never expected things to turn out like this.
If Azure King Valley was a group of female physicians treating illnesses, then the Longevity Sect was a group of alchemy boys tending fires. Who could have imagined that the Longevity Sect, after its internal strife, would still possess such might?
Yang Sui truly was an anomaly.
"The clues to the Longevity Sect's plot were dug up by Zhu He. But you must also know what sort of man Zhu He was. He was a renowned broker in the Southern Wastes, and men like him never rose early without profit. If he wanted