As those words fell, silence swept over the crowd. Even the elders below the platform fell quiet.
The sect master of a top-tier power was actually making an enemy of a teenage boy.
If word got out, the Azure Cloud Divine Sect's reputation would stink to high heaven.
A dignified sect master, bullying someone younger and weaker.
What was more, their sect master had already reached the Saint Emperor Realm and traveled far along the path of the humanity domain.
Yet that teenage boy was only at the peak of the divine platform domain. He had not even entered the Divine Palace Realm, let alone become a Saint!
Such an immense gulf in cultivation all but decided the outcome of this battle. There was no doubt about it.
And yet... none of them dared speak.
Leaving aside everything else, no one present except the sect master was a match for this boy. Even a Saint King had been suppressed with ease. They had exhausted all their options.
If they did not act now and this boy rescued Xiao Yan, he would undoubtedly become a formidable enemy in the future.
This was their only remaining course. Once the sect master struck, he had to kill this boy and silence him for good.
The Azure Cloud Sect Master took a single step, leaping through space and crossing the horizon in an instant to appear high in the void.
He had no desire to waste words. Bullying the young and weak, using his Saint Emperor cultivation against someone at the peak of the Divine Platform Realm, was already humiliating enough. Best to finish this quickly.
He stamped down, and mountains crumbled as the earth split. The full might of the Saint Emperor Realm was laid bare, towering like lofty mountains and mighty rivers,