The dozen or so Peak Masters instantly fell silent.
Though none of them spoke, their utterly grim faces had already given Dan Chenzi his answer.
Heavenly Baleful Valley had always been the Azure Cloud Sect's sworn enemy.
They dared not run wild in the Inner Sect, where experts gathered like clouds, so they came to stir up trouble in the Outer Sect instead.
Dan Chenzi's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
He remembered how, three years ago, his Direct Disciple had gone out to gain experience and clashed with a Heavenly Baleful Valley disciple over a transaction involving formation materials. After failing to swindle him, the other disciple had struck viciously instead, crippling his Dantian outright. The two sides had been mortal enemies ever since.
And now, looking at these immobilized Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples, deliberately left here, this was clearly an attempt to put him in his place!
Green Bamboo Peak.
Fang Yuan got up early and did everything expected of someone clinging to a powerful backer.
He watered the three acres of spirit fields in Chun Xiaobai's courtyard and even thoughtfully moved two spirit fruit trees from his former Cave Abode, planting them in the backyard.
Bai Jin'er was not idle either. She was clearing away the remains of the artificial rockery Chun Xiaobai had blasted apart while practicing two days earlier.
After all, she was enjoying treatment that low-level cultivators could only dream of and had received so many benefits here... most importantly of all, that fellow had actually called her his "third-in-command"!
If she did nothing in return, even her own conscience would not let her rest.
Just then, someone knocked on the Cave Abode's main gate.
Bai Jin'er set down her work and went to the entrance. She opened