"Was this also part of their scheme?"
"The old ancestor of Taixu Gate... his cunning is truly unfathomable..."
"Hold your tongue! Do you and I have the right to rashly criticize a Heaven Void Ancestor?"
...
The Four Great Sects were variously shocked, moved, furious, or worried—their hearts were in turmoil, up and down.
Qian Taoist Sect, high up in the pavilion.
The Old Ancestor of the Shen Family, dressed in resplendent robes, stared tensely at the jade slip in front of him, brows tightly knitted.
Elder Shen knelt below, not daring to lift his head:
"On the side of the Heavenly Mechanism Causality, it's all misdirection, covert maneuvers..."
"And what's more, Taixu Gate moved too fast. Everyone top to bottom was prepared. With Qianxue Sect's reform, there is no strict rule forbidding sect mergers—they exploited the loophole."
Mainly, none of them ever imagined that a split sect could really abandon its own doors and merge back together.
