"Those Demon Sect remnants have gall enough to blot out the sky! They even dared to kidnap the Ancient Moon Sect's little princess!"
"Hmph!" another elder snorted. "They've already stooped to kidnapping people for ransom. Why wouldn't they dare abduct a disciple?"
Among the crowd, only Envoy Zhang remained silent, his brows tightly furrowed.
He kept feeling that something was wrong.
Others might not know, but as their longtime rival, how could the Heavenly Baleful Valley not know the true strength of the Ancient Moon Sect and the Mystic Ice Palace?
They were no ordinary factions within the Hundred Sects Alliance, but colossal powers that dominated their own territories, each a world unto itself. They never involved themselves in outside disputes.
Contests between junior disciples were one thing, but if the old monsters of those sects were provoked into taking action themselves, that would amount to breaking the Eastern Region's unspoken rules.
The Heavenly Baleful Valley already had the Hundred Sects Alliance as a mortal enemy. How could they dare offend those two colossal powers as well?
Wasn't that deliberately courting death?
"Envoy Zhang, what should we do now? Should we notify the Ancient Moon Sect and the Mystic Ice Palace immediately and have them send people to negotiate?"
Someone could not help asking.
At those words, Envoy Zhang's expression darkened further.
He had overridden every objection and confidently invited those sects' geniuses to participate in this trial. And now they had been abducted on his own turf!
Now they wanted him to notify those sects and ask them to come demand their people back?
Where was he supposed to hide his old face?
Where would that leave the Hundred Sects Alliance's dignity?
And where would that leave the Alliance Leader's dignity when the time came?
Envoy Zhang felt his