Elder Zhou had accompanied Chongyangzi to assess the Pojun Sect, so he knew a little more about Li Yan than Elder Fang did.
He knew how Li Yan had truly performed aboard that flying boat during the Great Fruitless Fruit harvest.
It was not that Elder Fang could not have learned this. Rather, as Void Refinement Realm cultivators, they had already grown exceedingly indifferent to matters outside their own affairs.
Besides, those people were merely juniors. Assessing the qualifications of the sect cultivators below was simply a duty they had been ordered to perform. Otherwise, they rarely bothered to read their records.
Thus, Elder Fang had only gained a fuller understanding of the Mingyan Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators.
"So the Pojun Sect has managed to break free after all! Heh heh heh..."
The burly leader of the Seven Tigers Alliance made this noncommittal remark, chuckled, then glanced at Wu Gouzi.
Wu Gouzi's expression, however, did not change at all. He merely nodded.
He seemed to be agreeing with the burly alliance leader, yet also seemed to be acknowledging Li Yan's abilities. No one could read his true thoughts from his face.
But how calculating were these men? How could they fail to guess what Wu Gouzi was thinking? The burly leader of the Seven Tigers Alliance, in particular, had fought against him year after year.
He was absolutely certain that Wu Gouzi might well be harboring the desire to wipe out the Pojun Sect right now.
And he enjoyed precisely this feeling. Anything that angered Wu Gouzi had always been his favorite.
By extension, when he looked at Li Yan again, he suddenly found the lad quite pleasing, very much to his liking.
Since they would all be third-rate sects from now on, the Pojun Sect was worth courting a