Chapter 391 - Please, Everyone
Beyond the borders of the Daxia Sword Sect, a group of strangely dressed figures stood in formation, their hierarchy plain to see.
Lan Xun stood beside Yu Bo, worry flickering in her eyes. “Head, if we show up now, won’t it look a bit too calculated? When the Mo Family pressed in with their cloud boats, we didn’t step in.”
Yu Bo, his figure slightly stooped, lowered his gaze. His tone remained calm, though a glimmer stirred in his eyes. “It’s fine. I didn’t expect the Mo Family’s leader to be killed, and they’ve stayed quiet ever since. It seems even Mo Qingyu, their ancestor, can’t move freely. The Daxia Sword Sect might be stronger than we thought.”
Lan Xun frowned and turned toward him. “If that’s true, why didn’t we intervene earlier? We were already in the area.”
The old man smiled faintly. “That’s how those of us from the old generation survive. At the time, who could say whether the Daxia Sword Sect would hold out against the Mo Family? If we had pledged ourselves too early, our dwindling kin might have been dragged into a slaughter. We could have been wiped out. The Spiritfish Clan can’t afford more deaths.”
As the clan leader, Yu Bo could not let his people die for nothing. He would not see the Spiritfish Clan perish under his watch.
Even so, they had been waiting a while. At last, one elder furrowed his brows and let out a cold snort. “Is the Daxia Sword Sect truly this lacking in courtesy? We’ve been here half an hour, and not a single person has come to receive us.”
Murmurs spread at once. Complaints rippled through the group, and some of the younger disciples wore faintly mocking smiles. They couldn’t understand why their clan leader insisted on abandoning their homeland only to bow before another sect. In their eyes, the Spiritfish Clan had the strength to form a sect of its own.
Yu Bo merely smiled faintly. He knew well that his offer was neither timely aid nor a prized gift. The Daxia Sword Sect’s aloofness was understandable.
But if they thought to raise their bargaining position through such tactics, they were mistaken. Yu Bo had lived for more than a thousand years. He had seen too many kinds of people to be bothered. He could wait.