At this moment.

Zhao Wuji no longer knew if he should regret or be happy.

Regret? It seemed there was some.

Happy? Yet, he couldn't seem to be happy at all.

The Grand Ancestor of Mystic Moon Kingdom, Zhao Fangqun, was not dead and had even become a Celestial Human. This should have been an incredibly exciting and surprising great event for him.

Because the existence of a Celestial Human was enough to help Mystic Moon Kingdom easily sweep across the world and protect Mystic Moon Kingdom for eternal prosperity.

Yet, Zhao Fangqun was not on the Heavenly Ancient Continent at all, and even without showing himself, he took away Zhao Yunchu and Zhao Ziyue, clearly abandoning the Mystic Moon Kingdom he had personally founded.

Whether the Grand Ancestor of Mystic Moon Kingdom had become a Celestial Human was already meaningless to him.

And what about Li Yun?

Before he left back then, the two of them had met privately once.

During that meeting, the two of them had reached an agreement: as long as he properly supported Zhao Ziyue and didn't cause trouble, then as long as Zhao Ziyue was present, he would protect Mystic Moon Kingdom.

But now?

He had violated their agreement, and Zhao Ziyue had also been taken away by the Grand Ancestor.

Li Yun had directly severed ties with Mystic Moon Kingdom.

Didn't this mean that Mystic Moon Kingdom would also completely lose Li Yun's protection?

Without Li Yun's protection, with the current strength of Mystic Moon Kingdom, it would probably not be long before it was gradually encroached upon by the surrounding Wantu Kingdom and Eastern Ling Country, right?

"Alas..."

Zhao Wuji sighed helplessly, turned around, and returned to the palace, his figure seeming to have aged considerably in an instant.

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Eastern Cloud Continent.

Heavenly East Mountain.

Within the Heavenly Martial Sect's mountain gate headquarters, the Heavenly Martial Main Hall was also filled with gloom and desolation.

"Sect Leader, this can't go on like this."

"In the past few days, Ye Huang and the others have become increasingly aggressive in their siege of the Heavenly Martial Sect. Our Heavenly Martial Sect disciples can't even go down the mountain anymore. They are simply pressing us step by step, going too far!"

"We need to find a way to talk to them. If this continues, let alone developing, our entire Heavenly Martial Sect will become scattered and disintegrate..."

"Yes, Sect Leader, let's find a way to talk to Ye Huang..."

Facing the complaints of the various Sect Elders, Chen Jiuxu's expression was also quite grim.

He knew these Sect Elders were scared.

But he couldn't openly reprimand them.

Recently, the experts led by Ye Huang have personally besieged the Heavenly Martial Sect. There are dozens of Celestial Human Realm experts alone. Who the hell wouldn't be afraid of this?

However, is this something that can be resolved by talking?

Absolutely not.

He knew better than anyone that the root of this matter lay with Li Yun.

Ye Huang led people to surround the Heavenly Martial Sect, and the first demand he made was for the Heavenly Martial Sect to find Li Yun and hand him over. If Li Yun was not handed over, the siege would continue until the Heavenly Martial Sect was destroyed.

But where was he supposed to find Li Yun?

Even if he could find Li Yun, he couldn't possibly hand him over.

If he were to hand over Li Yun, he wouldn't have let Li Yun leave the Heavenly Martial Sect in the first place, would he?

"Stop arguing, all of you!"

"Can't you see that Ye Huang and his group are deliberately intimidating us right now!"

"Is that something that can be resolved by the Sect Leader going to talk to them?"

"Talking won't solve anything at all. For the Sect Leader to go and talk would only be inviting humiliation..."

Gu Xiaoxian snorted angrily.

"Since talking can't solve it, then call Li Yun back, Elder Gu. Don't think we don't know that Ye Huang and those people's target is Li Yun. Our Heavenly Martial Sect is just taking the blame for Li Yun."

"But why should we take the blame for Li Yun?"

"Just for Li Yun alone, should we put the Heavenly Martial Sect's eight hundred years of foundation and nearly two hundred thousand disciples in danger?"

"Is this fair to the Heavenly Martial Sect?"

A Sect Elder wearing a yellow long robe shouted.

"Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun... What kind of nonsense are you talking?"

"What do you mean by putting the Heavenly Martial Sect's two hundred thousand disciples in danger just for Li Yun alone?"

"Is this something a Sect Elder like you can say?"

"Aren't you ashamed to say such words?"

"Let me ask you, in the over eight hundred years since our Heavenly Martial Sect was founded, when have we ever abandoned a disciple because of external pressure?"

"Now, just because of a little external pressure, you actually want to sacrifice a disciple to appease the situation, and he's even a representative of our Heavenly Martial Sect!"

"Let me ask you, if we really do this, will our Heavenly Martial Sect still have any dignity?"

"Which Heavenly Martial Sect disciple will dare to trust our Heavenly Martial Sect in the future!"

Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun's face immediately turned red, but he still glared and roared, "Gu Xiaoxian, stop with that act. Who in the entire Heavenly Martial Sect doesn't know that you have the best relationship with Li Yun? Since your relationship with him is the best, you naturally side with him!"

"Besides, who can't talk big?"

"If you don't want to sacrifice Li Yun, then why don't you go out and deal with Ye Huang and those people..."

"If you can't resolve it, what's the point of talking about the Sect's righteousness with me here?"

"Moreover, you want the Sect's righteousness, you want the Sect's dignity, yet you're surrounded like this, not even a disciple can go down the mountain... Is this having the Sect's righteousness, is this having dignity?"

"I'm afraid at this moment, the entire Eastern Cloud Continent Martial Arts World is laughing at our Heavenly Martial Sect..."

"I dare not imagine, after Ye Huang and the others retreat, if our Heavenly Martial Sect disciples go out for training, whether they will become the laughingstock of others."

"You..."

Gu Xiaoxian was so angry he was trembling.

Suddenly, a powerful aura erupted from his body.

"Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun, damn you, all you're doing is talking about being afraid of death... If you keep being unreasonable here, believe it or not, I'll kill you right now?"

Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun's expression suddenly changed, and a strong hint of fear flashed in his eyes.

To be fair.

They were both Sect Elders, both at the Soaring Sky Realm cultivation level, but somehow in the past few months, Gu Xiaoxian's strength had advanced by leaps and bounds.

He had actually surpassed the other Elders by a large margin in just a few months.

Even Elder Chen Bairong of the Martial Arts Hall, who could be called the strongest among the Sect Elders, seemed to be slightly weaker than Gu Xiaoxian.

If they were to really fight, Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun would not be Gu Xiaoxian's opponent.

He was truly afraid that this old fellow Gu Xiaoxian, unable to win the argument, would directly choose to resort to violence.

He quickly shouted, "What are you doing? If you can't win with reason, are you going to resort to violence? Fine, go ahead and hit me... As long as you don't kill me, I'll still say the same thing."

"I consistently stand by my opinion. Our Heavenly Martial Sect's eight hundred years of foundation and the lives of two hundred thousand disciples should absolutely not be buried with Li Yun alone!"

"Shut up!"

Chen Jiuxu suddenly snorted angrily.

"Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun, that's enough!"

"Who told you that Li Yun will definitely die, and that our Heavenly Martial Sect's eight hundred years of foundation and nearly two hundred thousand disciples will definitely be buried with Li Yun?"

"Sect Leader, I..."

Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun's face immediately turned pale. He hadn't expected Chen Jiuxu to actually reprimand him in public.

No matter what, Chen Jiuxu, as a Celestial Supreme and the current Sect Leader, his authority was still quite deeply ingrained in people's hearts.

Xuanbing Star Lord Huang Yuankun also felt fear to his bones.

But at this moment, he still suppressed his fear and retorted, "Since the Sect Leader says so, then please, Sect Leader, lay out a plan... so that everyone in the Sect can have an explanation!"