"Nothing seemed amiss along the way. But this Divine Path Heaven you mentioned, with so many followers and such brazen conduct, must be plotting something big.
"I'd say there's an eighty or ninety percent chance I was sent to Southern Heaven this time because of it."
Those words left Wang Tong confused. A disciple of a prestigious sect had come to Southern Heaven expressly to quell unrest, yet he did not even know what unrest there was here, and claimed to be acting on orders. What sort of sect was this?
Wang Tong asked in puzzlement, "May I ask whose orders you are following, sir? And which sect do you belong to?"
Cui Jiuyang scratched his head and said somewhat vaguely, "Orders? Naturally, I'm following Heaven's Mandate. As for my sect... there's no harm in telling you. I am an Outer Sect Elder of the Haotian Sect!"
Wang Tong blinked. Even the grief and despair in his heart had temporarily dissipated.
He felt he should have taken the money earlier, given some perfunctory answers, and left.
The Haotian Sect? What sort of sect was that?
What sect under heaven would dare give itself a name like that?
Didn't Haotian mean Heaven itself?
Their sect was called the Heaven Sect?
As Wang Tong silently grumbled, his gaze toward Cui Jiuyang grew strange. He wondered to himself, This gentleman's cultivation isn't weak. Could he have suffered cultivation deviation, with spiritual energy flowing backward and addling his brain?
Then he glanced at Li Mingyue beside him, hoping to verify through her whether Cui Jiuyang was telling the truth.
Li Mingyue had heard Cui Jiuyang tell the tale of the Haotian Sect's Outer Sect Elder valiantly seizing the Mountain-Shaking Hammer. At the time, she had simply listened to it as a story and found