"Everyone has read the latest issue of Justice Weekly. Junior brothers, do any of you have a good countermeasure?" Patriarch Yuanqing surveyed the gathering, his gaze lingering briefly on [Far-Sighted Eagle].
"Lin Bai's many clauses are aimed squarely at the Seven Righteous Sects. Most of the members he's recruited are pawns we planted over the years. He truly has no decency," Yuan Hao said. "Lin Bai is using the Magpie Bridge to connect the world and buy people's loyalty. If we let him keep growing, I fear the tail will become too big to wag."
"Junior Brother Yuan Hao, that's all old talk. Repeating it helps nothing." Patriarch Yuanqing glanced at Yuan Hao. "We traded compromise for stability precisely so we could deal with Lin Bai more effectively. We shouldn't start another war. Besides, Lin Bai's power is already established. Unless we're certain we can kill him in a single strike, we'll leave endless trouble behind. What I want to know is how, under the present circumstances, we can curb the Righteous Alliance's growth and his Way of Laws without provoking him."
Those words stumped them.
Every last one of them.
They had always been accustomed to speaking with their fists. Whoever disobeyed got beaten; whoever still disobeyed got crushed to death.
The Cultivation World had enjoyed peace for years, and relations between sects were relatively simple. Although most of these cultivators had experienced life in the mortal world, whenever trouble arose, they either competed over their backers or solved it with strength far beyond that of ordinary people. This had become an established set of rules that never failed them.
Suddenly asking them to abandon force and solve problems with their brains was genuinely difficult.
Previously.
[Far-Sighted Eagle] had proposed that they work against Lin Bai, but when the