The several hundred disciples of the Zhunti Pavilion were merely an additional condition attached to the major sects' recruitment offers.
If their two junior disciples, Jiubao and Lin Tian, had no desire to join those sects and only wanted to cultivate in seclusion on Jade Dragon Mountain, those several hundred disciples would never receive any worthwhile resources or favorable terms.
And just now, their attempt to pressure Abbess Seven Absolutes—threatening to sever ties with her faction if Qijue refused those terms—had sounded as naive, childish, and ridiculous as a three-year-old's antics.
After Abbess Seven Absolutes pointed this out, Abbess Silver Hook's humiliation turned to anger.
After all.
Over the past twelve years, the eighty-one sects had showered her with so much attention that she had practically forgotten who she was.
And over the past ten years, Abbess Silver Hook had accepted all sorts of benefits from the lobbyists of dozens of sects.
In fact.
Abbess Silver Hook's cultivation had also reached the peak of the Profound Immortal Realm.
If all the spiritual energy and Heaven and Earth Laws within hundreds of billions of miles of Jade Dragon Mountain had not been drained dry by Lin Tian and Jiubao as they underwent their tribulations for the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
She, Abbess Silver Hook, could likewise have accumulated energy at the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm and thereby entered the Golden Immortal Realm.
Indeed.
She believed she already possessed sufficient aptitude and qualifications to negotiate terms with dozens of sects, and she herself was one of those bargaining chips!
Silver Hook believed that since Jiubao and Lin Tian could use the blessed grounds of the Zhunti Pavilion to leap straight from Profound Immortal to Great Unity Golden Immortal, the several hundred disciples likewise stood a very good chance of