"Ning Daoran!"
Zhang Qinghe's face contorted with rage, veins bulging: "You… why do you utter such crude and vile words?"
The entire Sect Assembly was stunned.
Beside Zhang Qinghe, Long Xian'er was equally frozen in shock.
Meanwhile, the Long-named disciples who usually disdained Zhang Qinghe's behavior couldn't help but secretly revel in schadenfreude. As expected of Ning Keqing, the one who stormed through the entire Divine Fire Tower—truly bold!
"Why?"
Ning Daoran spoke loudly, "I, an outsider cultivator, came to the Star Sea Divine Domain seeking nothing more than to cultivate for a while in the Fierce Sun Sky Pool. To obtain this opportunity, I was willing to pay in spirit stones or treasures, and even to join the Divine Fire Sect as a guest elder. But you? Repeatedly, over and over, you obstructed me. You even went so far as to alter the ancestral rules set by the Divine Fire Sect's patriarch just to make me lose my eligibility. What are you so afraid of?!"