"What happened?"
Envoy Zhang, who headed the Alliance delegation, walked over in puzzlement. Without asking permission,
he snatched the Image Recording Stone from the man's hand and activated it. His face instantly darkened too.
Originally, he had only come to go through the motions. He had never expected this rabble to gain any advantage over the Heavenly Baleful Valley.
But the Heavenly Baleful Valley had truly gone too far this time!
In the recording, the disciple named Wang Sheng not only praised the Heavenly Baleful Valley to the skies but also disparaged his own Alliance as utterly worthless.
He called them a rabble, experts at fighting among themselves but amateurs at fighting outsiders, and said they were bound to collapse sooner or later!
He even dared to threaten the Alliance: if they refused to pay his ransom, he would spread word of all the disgusting secrets within their ranks that could never bear the light of day!
"Outrageous!"
The other elders crowded around to examine the Image Recording Stone as well.
They had been blissfully ignorant before watching it. Once they did, their beards bristled and their eyes bulged with fury.
"This is going too far! Do they really think our Alliance is that easy to bully?!"
Then someone asked Envoy Zhang, "Envoy, what do we do now?"
"Leave him," Envoy Zhang said coldly.
"Exactly, exactly!" Everyone nodded in agreement. "If we pay the ransom, we'll fall right into their trap!"
"If word gets out, how will the other factions laugh at us?"
"But..."
Seeing their attitude, Wang Sheng's master was instantly dumbfounded.
His disciple had been forced to say those things!
Were they simply going to abandon him?!
Chun Xiaobai sat at the cave entrance, enjoying the cool breeze. An entire afternoon passed, yet not a single reply