Chapter 1489 - Verbal Conflict
A devilish smile curved on Liu Wuxie's lips as he stepped out from the crowd, and tens of thousands of gazes locked onto him at once.
Many high-ranking figures of the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain also began to reveal themselves, including upper echelons of the Grand Unity Sect, the Heavenly Dragon Sect, the Nine Dragon Palace, and more.
It almost defied belief that a mere Heavenly Dao Society could draw so much attention. Then again, the Heavenly Dao Society had risen far too meteorically, and that kind of ascent naturally stirred discontent.
"Palace Lord, I have a feeling that Liu Wuxie is cooking up something nasty," Elder Xue said as he stepped forward. The scene back in the Nine Dragon Palace still burned vividly in his mind.
Given Liu Wuxie's personality, he would never allow Li Hong and the others to succeed. Experts from the Heaven Gaze Realm lurked here, and they had already glimpsed the heavenly dao, so they could distinguish truth from lies with ease.
Yet they couldn't intervene because of their status, and plenty of people didn't want to see the Heavenly Dao Society surpass them so quickly anyway.
Humans were selfish by nature, and even good friends felt a stab of jealousy when they watched a companion surge ahead.
"Let's keep watching. It's a pity this kid joined the Heavenly Dragon Society. If he had joined the Nine Dragon Palace, he wouldn't still be trapped at the mere Void Realm," the palace lord said, his regret obvious. He cursed himself for not finding Liu Wuxie first.
Over the past year, the Heavenly Dragon Sect's nurturing of Liu Wuxie had been close to nonexistent, and Liu Wuxie had reached this point by relying on himself. That was all anyone on the outside ever saw, but it was only the surface.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect didn't lack resources, and it could have poured them into him. Instead, it merely kept him alive—like how Elder Jian had nearly fallen to save him—and that was what the Heavenly Dragon Sect had truly paid.
For Liu Wuxie, the Spirit Sealing Institute burned through countless resources every single day, and that, too, came from the Heavenly Dragon Sect. Nothing mattered more than survival, and even an endless pile of resources meant nothing if his past and present were severed.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect didn't need credit or to announce anything to the world. It acted in silence, helping Liu Wuxie dissolve crisis after crisis.