"You shameless scoundrel!" Tang Yan, the Clear Sky Sect's seventh elder, shouted.
"To think His Holiness the Pope of Spirit Hall would turn out to be such a shameless rogue!"
"He's the Pope, after all. Acting shamelessly is perfectly normal for him!"
"Exactly, exactly."
In response to Su Chen's words, many members of the Clear Sky Sect heaped mockery on him.
"Shut up!"
Seeing Spirit Hall's Pope being slandered, Chrysanthemum Douluo could no longer contain himself. He shouted at the Clear Sky Sect members standing atop the peak.
"Tang Yuehua!" Su Chen said.
"What?" Tang Yan asked in confusion.
"Didn't the Clear Sky Sect seal its gates and withdraw from worldly affairs? Then why did you send Tang Yuehua out to maneuver among the Heaven Dou Empire's powerful elite? Your second elder thought himself so clever. Are all your disciples equally full of themselves, taking everyone else for fools?" Su Chen mocked.
"Yuehua?"
"Yuehua?"
"Yuehua?"
The Clear Sky Sect disciples had nothing to say, especially its senior figures. Things were exactly as Su Chen had said. The sect publicly claimed to have shut itself away, but in its heart, it refused to bow to fate and had sent Tang Yuehua out.
Why had the Clear Sky Sect decided to seal its gates? Wasn't it because it feared Spirit Hall?
In the eyes of the Clear Sky Sect's master and elders, if the Heaven Dou Empire, with its million-strong army, had stood united with their sect against Spirit Hall, why would they ever have needed to seal their gates?
In fact, it was not just Tang Yuehua. Across the Douluo Continent, many Clear Sky Sect disciples were still training outside and hunting for soul rings. In the shadows, the sect was actively making preparations for its eventual return.
In other words,