Among the group waiting outside the mountain gate stood a young cultivator dressed in green magical robes.
His aura was only around the Fourth Heaven of the Dao-Unification Realm at most, yet he wore a lofty, arrogant expression, seemingly holding the Holy Land Interception Sect's grandeur in utter contempt.
Around this young cultivator in green, however, clustered numerous followers, like stars surrounding the moon.
The word "indignant" might as well have been written across their faces.
"Lord He Yan, this Holy Land Interception Sect has broken the rules! They're stealing our Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion's business!"
"Exactly! A Sect Grand Formation comparable to an expert at the Fifth Heaven of the Dao-Unification Realm, and they charge only a hundred purple pearls! Isn't that openly setting themselves against our Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion?"
"That's right! This Saint Tongtian is utterly arrogant. He even declared that he didn't regard the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion as worth his notice. He certainly needs to be taught a lesson!"
He Yan was an outer sect elder of the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion.
His usual duties involved handling business matters with these subordinate minor sects.
And the sect masters of these minor sects were precisely the people who had remained silent with strange expressions during the Holy Land Interception Sect's Sect Founding Ceremony a few days earlier.
They had not dared say anything to Tongtian's face, but had turned around and complained to their backer, the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion.
They had even eagerly brought He Yan, an outer sect elder of the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion, here to put Tongtian in his place. Although He Yan's cultivation was not particularly high, the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion was one of the top powers, ranked fifteenth!
Surely, no matter how bold Tongtian was, he would not dare rashly offend an important figure from the