Taiyi paused there.
Many cultivators from the great sects felt unbearably ashamed. Their faces flushed red, and they lowered their heads.
Of course, some cultivators were indignant and deeply unconvinced.
But cowed by the Eastern Emperor's might, they dared to be angry but not speak, much less step forward to argue.
They feared provoking him and following in the footsteps of the Taiyin Sect Master and the others, being taken straight into the "Human Emperor Banner."
The lower-ranking cultivators were also filled with indignation.
But it was not directed at the Eastern Emperor, but at those great sects that hung aloof whenever a matter did not concern them.
Ordinarily, whenever even one of their disciples was bullied, they would immediately raise a great fuss and demand an accounting. Regardless of right or wrong, they all but wished to exterminate anyone who dared offend them.
Yet in former days, the Human Emperor Taiyin's Daoist tradition had been usurped by servants, its legitimate heirs persecuted, and his bloodline slaughtered almost to extinction.
The sects of the human race had stood by and done nothing. They truly should not have.
"Insolent!"
"A visitor from beyond our domain, putting on such airs..."
"You dare call yourself the Eastern Emperor before attaining the Dao? What an arrogant fool!"
"Even if you have some strength, you haven't become an emperor yet. What gives you the right to posture there and call the sects to account?"
"How the sects of our Ziwei Star Domain conduct themselves is not for an outsider like you to dictate!"
"Exactly! Don't think calling yourself the Descendant of the Sun Saint Emperor gives you the right to command the world!"
Just then.
Waves of cold mockery came from afar.
More than one powerful figure was secretly transmitting rebukes and taunts.
But they