With the Grand Tournament recently over, Su Mianmian declared that they needed to balance work and rest, then regularly latched onto Su Jiu and Jin Chen to while away the days with her. She refused to stay under her master's nose, did not want to look at the Golden Guard Peak Master's loathsome face of old tree bark, and was even less willing to visit a place as freezing as Ice Veil Peak. So she dragged Su Jiu and Jin Chen off to squat in some corner of the Outer Gate and gossip.
By now, the Outer Gate disciples had grown so accustomed to seeing the three of them that they no longer found it strange.
During those two months of balancing work and rest, Su Jiu learned three things through Su Mianmian's gossip.
First, people from the Heavenly Dawn Sect had come to the Azure Tide Sect, paid compensation in spirit stones, offered apologies, and taken Huang Feng away. Huang Feng was a direct relative of the Heavenly Dawn Sect's sect master. Although relations between the two sects had been peaceful over the generations, they could hardly be called friendly. To anyone paying attention, Huang Feng's appearance on Azure Tide Sect territory to stir up trouble was worth pondering.
Second, a piece of news had come from an Inner Gate Disciple. Apparently, he had encountered an incident just after returning to the sect from a training journey. Within the Azure Tide Sect's jurisdiction, he had actually seen Qi Refining disciples wearing Azure Tide Sect robes being harassed. From childhood, he had been taught that disciples of the same sect should watch out for and help one another.
At the time, he had harbored few doubts, assuming only that these Junior Disciples had foolishly sneaked out to play. It never