The crowd shook their heads one after another. They were not as wretched as Xue Jianfeng; at most they grumbled in private, and of course they could not openly object.

Even Yu Zhengliang and the others of the Qiankun Sect kept silent at this moment. They had in truth been cowed by Wei Zhao's beatings, and their Qiankun Sect was only an ordinary sect, far less formidable than the Xuejian Sect—naturally they lacked the nerve and the wherewithal to defy Xin Yijie before the crowd.