Chapter 266: Congregation of Intentions Pt.2
With so many important dignitaries participating in the meeting, the Sword Saint’s gaze didn’t linger on Li Lang for long, but to Li Lang, it felt like an eternity.
Was he really looking at me? If so, what did he want?
The surrounding conversation soon died down before Li Lang could make heads or tails of the Sword Saint’s intentions. Seeing the crowd had calmed down, the host of the meeting began to speak once more.
“I will now be moving on to the third path we could take, retaliation. I doubt I would have to explain what this option can entail. There are many ways we could strike back, which we can discuss later if we do go through with it, but there are a few requirements we must satisfy first if we are to choose this course of action. As I have explained before, the most important requirement is for all the forces of Violet Isle to cooperate and be on the same page. We all know about the feud between the orthodox and demonic cultivators, but we’d have to find a way to share information and work together. Otherwise, the Abductress will continue to do as she had for the past few decades, weaving between both factions’ territories, making it impossible to track her down.”
This latest option made everyone present even more flustered than before. The previous fuss about submitting to the Abductress was more done out of pride and face. Numerous forces who couldn’t afford to go against a Spirit Divide Realm cultivator still denounced her and gloated about how they would go down fighting. They were simply talking big.
Ironically, hearing talks about cooperation between cultivators of the righteous and demonic path agitated them more fiercely as it touched their bottom line. The two factions had feuded for as long as they could remember. It could no longer be simply described as bad blood between them. There was an instinctual revulsion just from hearing the idea of working together. It had already taken them all they had to ignore each other while co-existing on Sword Saint Isle.
“With those barbaric subhumans? Who knows how many of them are in cahoots with the Abductress? If we worked with them, we’d likely suffer from cowardly ambushes as our intel leaks.”
“Ha, you’re only too right, fellow cultivator. If we worked with those unstable fiends, they’d undoubtedly target us and our disciples to use as their sustenance. Beasts are better kept separated from people. It’s why cages were invented.”
“Did you hear that, my fellow cultivators of the Luminescent Domain? Those hypocrites are afraid of us backstabbing them? Oh please, as if we could rival them in their area of expertise!”
“We’ll never allow any so-called righteous cultivators to step foot into our land, and if we step into theirs, they’ll likely find some excuse to hunt us down. Cooperation is impossible! All they can think of are short-term benefits.”