Chun Xiaobai waved his hand.
"You got it!"
Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang carefully put away the rings, then brought out a large War Puppet and tossed the bound disciples inside like dumplings into a pot. Once they had stuffed nearly a hundred people into it, they headed out for a trip.
Back and forth they went, taking four hours to deliver all thousand-plus Inner Sect disciples and Core Disciples to the concealed locations they had arranged beforehand.
Once that was done, Chun Xiaobai drafted another message and sent it to both sides.
When the two groups found their sects' disciples at their respective locations and brought them back to the Flying Boats,
the elders and Sect Masters said nothing before pinning these "disgraceful" disciples to the ground and giving them a savage pounding.
Only after beating them beyond their own parents' recognition did the shame in their hearts ease a little.
"Take them back! Strip them of their status and make them face the wall in reflection for three years!"
"Spare us, Master! We had no choice! You have no idea how vicious those bandits were!"
"If we refused to say those things, they threatened to torture us! Tiger benches, chili water, bamboo splinters... just hearing about them was terrifying!"
They would have been better off keeping quiet. Those words only made the elders and Sect Masters even angrier. After all that, they had not even figured out who had kidnapped them?
Bandits, indeed!
They could barely resist going over and giving each of these useless fools another kick.
"Get them out of here! Take them away!"
That settled the matter.
Yet once the elders calmed down, they had a nagging sense that something was wrong.
Suddenly, one elder muttered, "Young people these days certainly have energy. It's