When they saw Xiao Yan turn his gaze toward them, the Misty Cloud Sect leadership on the raised platform also looked terrified. They had witnessed the Nalan Family's fate with their own eyes. Everything Xiao Yan had done was clearly intended as revenge against Nalan Yanran, and their Misty Cloud Sect was connected to her as well. If he marked them as targets for revenge too, they would be in dire straits.
In truth, given the Misty Cloud Sect's usual way of doing things, they would certainly have stood alongside the Nalan Family when Xiao Yan dared to attack them. But his earlier, terrifying methods had cowed everyone present, leaving them afraid to make any rash moves. Yun Yun had wanted to intervene, but Xiao Yan had forcibly immobilized her from the very beginning. Only now had she regained the ability to move.
The moment she could move again, Yun Yun looked toward Nalan Yanran. Having witnessed that human tragedy, her heart was filled with boundless anger, and the trace of guilt she had previously felt toward Xiao Yan vanished completely. Unable to restrain herself, she demanded, "Xiao Yan! Even if Yanran was in the wrong, she has already paid the price! Why must you be so cruel? Disfiguring her wasn't enough-you had to seize her family's assets and exterminate her entire clan!"
At Yun Yun's words, the other members of the Misty Cloud Sect leadership and the Misty Cloud Sect disciples turned deathly pale. Right now, the sect wanted nothing more than to cut all ties with Nalan Yanran immediately. That might at least preserve a path to survival. Yun Leng had even been planning to announce her expulsion from the sect, only for their sect master to deliver a speech like that. Wasn't she walking straight into his