After Illusory Valley True Person finished speaking, he knew he would be able to leave shortly. He still needed to observe the subsequent developments of this matter from the sidelines; he had no intention of continuing to participate in the planning that followed.
Yet inwardly, he sighed and grumbled about Chongyangzi. Even if Chongyangzi had helped take action today, Elder Shi and Elder Hu would not have felt the slightest goodwill toward him.
For this affair to ultimately become known to outside forces, including the resentment Moji Dao Sect had mixed into the matter, Chongyangzi had truly "contributed beyond measure."
Chongyangzi's words back then had sounded so "beautiful," so "resounding as they struck the ground." Every sentence had questioned the sect's actions, and Moji Dao Sect naturally had to take his views into consideration.
Although Moji Dao Sect could not possibly have failed to think of such viewpoints even without Chongyangzi saying them, having someone speak out and having no one speak out led to entirely different results...
This had made Elder Shi and Elder Hu, the two Supreme Elders, practically want to kill Chongyangzi. When Illusory Valley True Person heard it in his cave dwelling, he had been furious enough to nearly rush over and personally put Chongyangzi to death.
But there had been nothing wrong with what Chongyangzi said. If he killed him, or even had Elder Shi and Elder Hu kill him, the hearts of the people within his faction would scatter by several tenths at the very least.
Moreover, although Chongyangzi was not his disciple, he liked this Void Refinement Realm elder quite a bit. Whatever task was handed to him, he never behaved like certain people who cut corners and shaved off a portion of the work.
As long as Chongyangzi agreed to take something