Chapter 267: A Clean Break
With a recess in session, the cultivators in the Dark Sea Arena could be seen wandering all over the place.
Just from taking a stroll during such a time, Li Lang was able to overhear many things. While the elders and senior members of various forces chatted privately amongst themselves or with their peers, their more junior disciples still spoke freely. From what he heard, he got a glimpse of what these forces thought.
It didn’t surprise Li Lang that it was ultimately split between two options.
The endure option was to simply ignore the attack by the Abductress and continue on with their lives. This was most favored among the forces that hadn’t suffered any casualties. To them, they were barely involved. They got a good show during the attack, and now they wanted to be done with this ordeal. It wasn’t worth spending their resources to formulate a response on behalf of others.
Opposing the endure option was the retaliation plan. With the reputation of the Abductress, Li Lang thought the cultivators would be more lukewarm to this plan before, but then Polarity City’s proposal turned everything around. A viable avenue of retaliation had opened up. People were on the fence due to the implications of further empowering Polarity City.
If Polarity City got too strong, as the only party facilitating trade between the demonic cultivators and orthodox cultivators, they would be able to get away with increasing their fees. As neither party wanted to deal with the other, they were at the mercy of the neutral merchants from Polarity City if they wanted to continue trading. There was already a certain upcharge the middleman imposed. No one enjoyed having their cost of trade increased if they could help it.
For that exact reason, the representative from Polarity City could be seen being overwhelmed by all the people who wanted to obtain reassurances from him. Li Lang quickly walked by this crowd and proceeded to where his closest allies were.
He found a large gathering of Nightmoon Valley disciples in their seats, surrounded by people from dozens of other organizations.
“I don’t think we’re going to be able to squeeze our way through that,” Long Yi commented.
“Maybe w-we should come back later?” Wei Ping suggested.