Silence hung over Cihang Hall.
Everyone listened quietly as Dini thundered in fury, not daring to utter another word.
After all, Dini was the founding patriarch of Cihang Jingzhai, and she had lived for over eight hundred years.
No one dared contradict anything she said.
Besides, Dini was right. Fan Qinghui and the others had been in the wrong.
Their entire philosophy had been wrong from the start.
If Cihang Jingzhai wanted to flourish, it should have relied on tireless self-improvement, not used beauty to seduce powerful figures in the Jianghu and borrowed their reputations to maintain its standing.
How was such behavior any different from that of women in worldly brothels?
The silence lasted a long while.
Dini rose, looking down at Fan Qinghui and the other women, and said coldly, "From now on, Cihang Jingzhai will seal its mountain and cease concerning itself with worldly affairs. You will all remain within the sect and reflect on your mistakes."
"Bingyun will temporarily oversee all sect affairs, with the elders assisting her."
Everyone was startled.
Jin Bingyun was also a beloved disciple of Yan Jing'an, but neither her aptitude nor her beauty matched Shi Feixuan's, and she had little presence within the sect. No one had expected Dini to pass the position of sect leader to her.
Jin Bingyun, who looked barely twenty, was also slightly taken aback. Soon, however, a barely perceptible gleam of joy appeared in her eyes. She hurried forward and said respectfully, "Yes, Grandmaster. Your granddisciple accepts your command."
Faced with Dini's icy expression, no one dared voice any objections they might have harbored, and the matter of the sect leadership was settled.
Just then, however, the former sect leader, Abbess Jingyi, stepped forward with a frown. "Founding Patriarch, Cihang Jingzhai supported the Li Clan in