Objections? Elder Yi, Elder Feng, and Elder Cui had all voiced theirs just now. Had it done any good?
Anyone who raised another objection would be taken to the Royal Court to plead their case. Would the Royal Court listen to the ramblings of some insignificant elder from Mount Wukang? They might not even come back alive.
This was plainly using the Royal Court to crush them. Who still dared object?
Silence blanketed the gathering. After waiting a long while without anyone speaking, the Royal Court Envoy smiled faintly. "Since a resolution has been reached, I shall take it back to the Royal Court and report."
He then rose from the seat of honor, walked up to Bian Weiying, and instructed her, "Sect Master Bian, once you have settled the aftermath, go to the Royal Court as soon as possible to give an account."
Bian Weiying was still dazed. Sect Master of Mount Wukang? She had yearned for this for so long, yet now she did not know whether to grieve or rejoice.
And so, in a bewildered haze, she became the Sect Master of Mount Wukang.
With his task completed, the Royal Court Envoy did not linger. This was hardly the time to stay anyway. They were holding funerals here; surely he could not stay to eat, drink, and make merry?
Outside the hall, just before he took flight to leave, the Royal Court Envoy suddenly turned to the group seeing him off. "The Skyfall Meteor Assembly was, after all, organized by the Royal Court itself. Shi Chun and his companions placed among the best, as everyone under heaven knows. If investigation establishes that they had nothing to do with this matter, I hope you will exercise caution in dealing with them. The Royal Court's reputation is at stake,