The elder of Bagua Sect started the meeting as though he had beena.s.signed the lead position.


Unexpectedly, n.o.body responded to his speech. The entire room fellsilent.


Failing to drum up any support, the elder of Bagua Sect’s face dropped.He had planned this whole time to take the lead right away.


Naturally everybody wanted to take the lead in this alliance, but thebiggest challenge was how to make the others agreed that he was the lead.


The “Top Nine Sects” sounded good when spoken of together, but inreality there were, of course, a lot of conflicts between the individual sects– fighting over resources, talents, territories, just about anything.

Surely they were banding together this one time by forming thisso-called alliance, but even so, each sect still wanted to take the lead.

Once a sect could take the lead, that meant they would be in the bestposition to receive the most benefits!


See that the atmosphere was a bit awkward and uncomfortable, an gentleand friendly-looking old monk from the Shengseng (Sacred Monk) Sect saidlightly, “In my opinion, Elder Lin of Wushan Sect had already had previouscontact with the Cheng’s, I felt he’d be the best candidate to lead thisalliance this time around.


“I agree with Monk Wudao’s suggestion!” said Nun Saochen of the YuniSect.


Elder Quan of Huashan Sect and Elder Du of Shendong Sect exchanged alook subtly and immediately said, “Huasahn Sect also agreed to having Elder Linlead this mission!”


“Shendong Sect agree to have Elder Lin to lead this mission as well!”


In almost no time, almost half of the nine sects have came to some sortof an agreement; whatever ones left wouldn’t be able to get enough support evenif they have wanted to.


They pondered over it for a bit and each and every single one of themvoiced their agreement. Essentially all nine sects have came to the agreementto have Elder Lin as the lead of this alliance.


Now that that was settled, more important issues could be bring to thetable for discussions.


“Everything else aside, in my opinion, the most important thing rightnow is to figure out what exactly are the Cheng’s auctioning off in two days.Elder Lin had been staying in Daling for a while now, presumably he might havesome ideas?” asked Elder Buyi of the Wugai (Martial Beggar) Sect point blank atElder Lin.


That question piqued the interest of everybody there. With the exceptionof mystical water and mystical animals, n.o.body else know what else would theCheng’s be auctioning off.


As the purpose of the alliance was to acquire the maximum amount ofresources, naturally the more intel they could have before the event the betterposition they would be in. That way everybody would know what suit their needsthe most.


Everybody couldn’t help but turned their attention to Elder Lin.


Being the leader of this alliance was no easy task. Elder Lin smiledbitterly and said, “For the sake of honoring my agreeing with maiden Cheng, Ihave not returned to the Cheng’s ever since. It wasn’t that don’t want to share with you all, but I reallyhave no idea what else will they be auctioning off. Elder Quan and Elder Duhave been staying here with me, they were also in the same boat as I.”


The two elders who were called upon met with everybody’s inquisitivegaze and nodded, signaling that what Elder Lin said was the truth.


“You mean to say that we have no idea what the Cheng’s will beauctioning off in two days?” grumbled Elder Fan of the XiaoYao Sect.


XiaoYao Sect was the most powerful among the Nine Top Sects, n.o.body dareto cross them. Elder Lin was already feeling a bit uneasy that he took the roleof the leader of the alliance from him; now he was even more uncomfortable whenhe was confronted.


After thinking about it for a bit, he said, “We are certainly not sure,but there is someone in town who’d definitely have information!”


“Who? Who is this person?”


“Who knows anything about this?”


“Someone actually knows about it?”


The rest of the elders all started asking questions at the same time.


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