"Since you have made your demands, Master, I will make one of my own. Leave today, and out of respect for White Dragon Temple, we will consider this matter settled.
"If you insist on fighting-"
"Then we will gladly oblige!"
"You came uninvited into Azure Mystic territory, pressured our disciple, and used an entire county's living souls as a training ground. To put it bluntly, even if we surrounded and killed you here today, you would have brought it on yourself!"
The atmosphere froze.
Chunhui had a goal he was determined to achieve.
But all four of Azure Mystic's Foundation Establishment cultivators had arrived, giving them every advantage. On their own territory, with both reason and justice on their side, they had even less intention of backing down.
Yet when it came to actually fighting here, both sides felt uneasy.
Chunhui knew perfectly well that against four Foundation Establishment cultivators, he had no chance. If he forced a fight, their threat to surround and kill him might well come true, never mind taking his senior brother's reincarnation away.
Jifang's side was equally uncertain.
If this had been a rogue cultivator with no sect behind him, even one at Foundation Establishment, killing him would have been the end of it. A Supreme Zen Master from White Dragon Temple was another matter.
One sect lay in the south and the other in the north, and ordinarily they were so far apart that even eight bamboo poles could not reach between them. Still, White Dragon Temple had deep foundations, and making an enemy of them for no reason was hardly wise.
Even an ordinary feud might have been bearable. More importantly, however, this reincarnated child was tied to a future Venerable of the Buddhist Path.
Forcibly blocking the Dao Path of one of