"The Azure Cloud Sect really has posed us a difficult problem!"
After Feng Xingyun presented several demands on behalf of the Azure Cloud Sect, the Artifact Sect's leadership immediately gathered the Grand Elders for a private discussion. In the end, however, all it produced was a quiet sigh from the Sect Master.
He slowly sat down in the chair before him and gently rubbed his temples, half troubled, half resigned.
The other Grand Elders gathered there were likewise lost in their own thoughts.
This time, the Azure Cloud Sect not only wanted to seize the opportunity to obtain more secrets and gain the initiative, but was also using this secret to pressure the Artifact Sect into forming an Iron Alliance with them, advancing and retreating together.
They had been completely unprepared for the matter of the Treasure Sovereigns. They had never imagined that such secretive and powerful artifact spirits could be lurking in the shadows, secretly spreading their traditions and laying hidden plans.
Still less had they expected Fang Qianyuan to report the matter so decisively, drawing his sect into the game.
Even the Artifact Sect's leadership found it difficult to determine whether they were truly innocent.
The sect's masters and experts came from different factions. Perhaps some knew what the Treasure Sovereigns had been doing in secret, yet had kept it concealed all along.
But people of the present age could no longer refine Dao Artifacts or Magic Treasures that possessed Treasure Sovereigns, and ordinary artifact spirits had entirely different origins from Treasure Sovereigns. It was only natural that most artifact refiners knew nothing about them.
At least, before the Azure Cloud Sect's warning, even the Artifact Sect's Sect Master and the others had never imagined that Treasure Sovereigns could serve such a purpose.
A Treasure Sovereign was a