After leaving, Shijiu pondered whether he could use this excuse to request confinement in the Water Prison of Confinement himself, saving him the trouble of finding another reason to get himself locked up.
Xue Fuyao soon received word from Senior Sister Gu Nian that the Sect Master had agreed to their proposal.
It seemed the Sect Master was also eager to send these people packing.
And so, a free-for-all between the four sects-the Kunlun Sect, Heavenly Sword Manor, Azure Cloud Sect, and Luofu Sect-began.
Meanwhile, Xie Lin still felt rather uneasy after returning. After all, the person he had offended was Venerable Spiritwood's only disciple, and Venerable Spiritwood was notorious for shielding his own. More precisely, the entire Yuanji Sect was quite protective of its own.
But after waiting a long time without anyone from the Yuanji Sect coming to demand an accounting, his apprehension gradually faded. He decided those earlier words had merely been intended to scare him.
Still, after this incident, he also realized that this was the Yuanji Sect, not the Kunlun Sect. As the saying went, even a mighty dragon did not overpower a local snake. On someone else's turf, he had better keep a low profile.
As for Shi Jiu, he would settle accounts with him properly once they returned to the sect.
He was the Sect Master's disciple, while Shi Jiu was merely an elder's disciple. His status alone naturally placed him a head above Shi Jiu.
Moreover, he knew perfectly well why his master had accepted him as a disciple: to have him compete for the position of the next Sect Master.
Originally, the Sect Master's eldest disciple had already been designated as the next Sect Master. Unfortunately, just six months earlier, that eldest disciple had died while training in a secret realm.