Elder Sun had to die!
The instant Elder Sun attacked him, Chen Yu knew that only one of them could remain alive within the Dao Sect. He could not raise his cultivation to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and enter the Inner Sect in such a short time. After all, advancing too quickly would be far too abnormal and draw the attention of the Dao Sect's higher-ranking elders-people far more dangerous than Elder Sun.
And as long as he was certain he needed to remain in the Dao Sect's Outer Sect, Elder Sun had to die.
Will he summon me again next month?
It seems even an elder can't simply kill someone whenever he wants. He has to go through a series of rules.
For example, this time, Elder Sun tried to refine me into spirit essence under the pretext of "checking my cultivation." But because he can only summon three disciples each month for cultivation checks, and I've already been "checked," he can only make another move next month.
It was rather bizarre.
Clearly, Elder Sun did not fully follow the rules in practice, yet he still had to pretend to observe them on the surface.
Could someone above Elder Sun be watching them?
That must be it.
After all, the Dao Sect is one of the Eastern Continent's Four Great Sects. It certainly wouldn't allow elders to slaughter disciples indiscriminately for no reason.
Most of the disciples Elder Sun killed before were driven into a corner by the various new rules he introduced. The only incident that could count as "slaughtering innocents" was when he killed Senior Brother Wu and the others at the Netherdark Sea. But the thing is, that happened outside the sect.
At that thought, Chen Yu shook his head again.
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