Elsewhere, Su Jiu and her four companions also discussed various matters as they walked.
Yun Huanling walked on Su Jiu's left. "When you said outside that we should wait for that female cultivator to come out, I thought you really intended to keep waiting."
Su Jiu nodded. "If nothing unexpected had happened, I really would have kept waiting. Although I wanted to come in here at the time, we didn't have a good reason.
"We couldn't very well get into a conflict with the Vast Righteousness Sect, could we?"
Yun Chao added, "Strictly speaking, the Windforest Star River doesn't belong to the Vast Righteousness Sect. Even if a conflict broke out, we wouldn't be entirely in the wrong."
Gu Ningyun shook her head. "Many things can't be judged that way. Even if the Windforest Star River doesn't belong to the Vast Righteousness Sect, they've still guarded it alone for over a hundred years.
"When the other sects on the Vast Heaven Continent stopped sending disciples to seal this place, the current situation became inevitable.
"In other words, they tacitly accepted the Vast Righteousness Sect's actions, and they also accepted the Windforest Star River being placed under its jurisdiction."
Su Jiu nodded in agreement. "It's just as Ningyun said."
Throughout their conversation, Feng Qi rarely spoke. To Su Jiu's surprise, Yun Huanling wasn't particularly talkative either.
At least, he spoke much less than he used to.
A little puzzled, Su Jiu tilted her head and glanced at Yun Huanling. His pupils abruptly contracted, his heartbeat instantly lost its rhythm, and he flushed from his neck to the tips of his ears...
But because the sky was dim and tree shadows shaded them on all sides, Su Jiu never noticed the change in him.
She only felt that his quietness might mean