Everyone began discussing the matter right where they stood, talking over one another, without noticing the ghost-struck expressions of the Vast Righteousness Sect disciples who came running over.
Once Su Jiu and the others realized they were safe, however, all the other disciples sat down to meditate and recover, with Su Jiu and Xia Jue standing guard.
Perhaps because Xia Jue was there, even the cultivators who wanted to approach and ask questions had their reservations.
Just then, the Enforcement Hall disciples who had been stationed outside all along came over.
"Did anything happen out here during this time?"
Thirteen, who was leading them, hesitated slightly before nodding. "Quite a few things happened over the days you were inside. According to the disciples we sent out earlier, the Vast Righteousness Sect does indeed have another passage into the Inner Perimeter..."
Later, somehow, cultivators from other sects learned of this. Spurred on by people with ulterior motives, they began clamoring to go inside and investigate, wanting to know why magic beasts were running out.
Since this concerned the Inner Perimeter of the Windforest Star River, the Vast Righteousness Sect disciples naturally refused to let them through. The pushing and pulling turned into a dispute, and no one knew who struck first, but the whole scene descended into chaos.
Of course, everyone was relatively restrained at first, and no one struck to kill. At most, the Vast Righteousness Sect wanted to teach the others a lesson, while those from the other sects only wanted to investigate. Neither side had any need to kill the other.
But sometimes accidents struck with just such devastating suddenness. The less one wanted something to happen, the more surely it came.
And so a disciple from a small sect was accidentally killed.
Neither side had been particularly