The hall fell silent!
Four pairs of eyes stared in unison at the calm-faced Wang Baoguang, their expressions impossibly complicated.
Compared with underhanded schemes and trickery, an open plot like this was the hardest to solve.
In that brief moment, they had cursed him ten thousand times over in their hearts for being shameless and brazen, yet no matter how they racked their brains, they could not find a way to break the deadlock.
Silence spread through the air.
After a long while, the projection of Dao Master Ziyun was the first to break it. "No matter what, the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty is a friendly neighbor separated from us only by a strip of water. As a righteous and renowned orthodox sect, our Ziyun Dao Sect will certainly not stand by and watch the Devil Race attack the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty."
Dao Master Sun also shot Wang Baoguang a vicious glare.
He had figured it out. Wang Baoguang's whole string of maneuvers earlier had been meant to make this home-raiding plan more flawless.
All that nonsense about being absorbed in his career and forgetting his diplomatic mission had been fake!
This brat had first used gossip about the various Dao Masters to open up channels, then tricked him aboard by tying their interests together and having him help expand those channels. Once the channels had been perfected, he used those very channels to loudly publicize the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty's plight and guide public sentiment, until supporting the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty had become the will of the people across the Northern Polar Divine Continent.
As the saying went, water could carry a boat, but it could also overturn it. When public sentiment united, even Dao Masters like them could not simply go their own way.
In private,