Xu Bai had not expected Gu Yuanqing to be so shameless. He snapped, "Ridge Lord Gu, you make swindling and cheating sound so grand and righteous. You've truly opened this old man's eyes!
Doesn't that mean that as long as someone's fists are big enough, they can buy your pills without paying, and you won't pursue the matter at all, only admit that you're outmatched?
If someone abducts your Alchemy Masters and trains them into alchemy slaves, you'll also think they deserved to be taken because they were weak?
Since that's how you see things, Ridge Lord Gu, the Star-Gazing Pavilion will take all of Windfire Ridge's pills from now on!"
"The Fengyun Clan reserves ten of Windfire Ridge's high-rank Alchemy Masters." Feng Yongjian, the Fengyun Clan's Grand Elder, immediately chimed in, then turned to the Overlord Spear Sect's Sect Master. "Windfire Ridge considers this normal, so we're merely giving them a taste of their own medicine!
Sect Master Zhuang, throughout its ten-thousand-year history, the Overlord Spear Sect has always been upright and honorable, chivalrous and courageous, and brimming with martial virtue, earning praise throughout the Northern Spirit Realm!
Our dealings are still founded on public order and common decency. You mustn't get involved, or if every sect in Northern Spirit acts like Windfire Ridge, everything really will descend into chaos!"
With those words, Feng Yongjian put the Overlord Spear Sect squarely on the spot.
On one side stood righteousness, involving the sect's good name. On the other stood an ally, involving the sect's interests. For a moment, Zhuang Zhile could neither advance nor retreat.
Shen Jihong, the Artifact Pavilion's Grand Elder, spoke unhurriedly. "Ridge Lord Gu, though we're unwilling to go to war, we aren't afraid of it. We haven't attacked yet because we're giving Windfire Ridge a chance