Deer King and Gao Qixin acted as representatives of the smaller sects without questioning them. The rest didn’t have the chance to voice their stance since it was too late.

To refuse right now was to blatantly insult the young lord, risking punishment from Dragon. Thus, even those who wanted to remain neutral couldn’t say anything.

The young lord smiled while seeing the lack of opposition. Of course, he didn’t actually care about these smaller sects. Their plan and strategy didn’t take these sects into account in the first place.

Nonetheless,...