Chapter 886 – Does Anyone Object? (2/2)
Countless people also looked to Chen Changsheng.
He was the Pope and seated at the highest place.
He appeared high above the crowd, and in reality, was rather lonely. He appeared to wield a great authority, yet he found it very difficult to stop these proceedings.
That is, unless the Orthodoxy wanted to first fight with South Stream Temple before beginning its fight with the Imperial Court.
”I wonder what Chen Chang… no, His Holiness the Pope will say,” Bai Cai nervously said as he watched.
Gou Hanshi said, ”In normal circumstances he wouldn't speak. He's never said much in front of others, and whenever Tang Tang is there, it's usually Tang Tang that talks.”
Just as expected, Tang Thirty-Six stood and walked out of the Mount Li Sword Sect's seating area to face the crowd.
Countless gazes moved from Chen Changsheng to him, but he seemed unaware. He asked Huai Ren, ”Your surname?”
Huai Ren calmly replied, ”My Daoist name is Huai Ren.”
If Tang Thirty-Six wanted to find a weakness by making her mad, she would not give this junior of the Tang clan a single chance.
She had cultivated in South Stream Temple for a hundred-some years and traveled the world for even longer. Although she had still not managed to break through that threshold, her Dao heart had long since become brightly lit.
She had not expected that Tang Thirty-Six had no plans to anger her, only wanted to use this time to speak his mind.
”So you're not surnamed Xu. Then you definitely aren't Xu Yourong's aunt by blood.”
Tang Thirty-Six looked at her and said, ”Of course, even if you were the Holy Maiden's aunt by blood, everything you said just now was useless. It was all nonsense.”
With these words, the plateau clamored with discussion.
The sentimental, reasonable, and even touching words of Huai Ren were all nonsense in his view?
The three Daoist nuns were extremely senior martial grandaunts of South Stream Temple. Even the Prince of Xiang and the two clan heads had paid them the deepest respect.
No one had expected for Tang Thirty-Six to speak to them so rudely.
”No matter how senior you are, just what right do any of you have to decide South Stream Temple's future?”
Tang Thirty-Six sneered at her, ”This place is Holy Maiden Peak, not Huai Ren Peak. You can hold this absurd meeting again once you become Holy Maiden.”
These were harsh words, difficult to fend off. Huai Ren calmly gazed at him, saying nothing.
Tang Thirty-Six then looked at the Longevity Sect elder and said, ”You agree to the closing of the temple? Does the current Longevity Sect have the right to say such words, or is it that you think your own words have the power?”
The elder thought for a moment, then replied, ”That's right, my words truly don't have the power. Consider my words from before as if I hadn't said them.”
This reply caused Huai Ren's gaze to turn grave and for Huai Shu's and Huai Bi's expressions to shift.
The Longevity Sect had lost much of its strength, but since it, like Holy Maiden Peak, was one of the ancestral halls of the southern faction, it still had some foundational resources.
Even though Tang Thirty-Six was the eldest grandson of the Tang clan, how could this elder be cowed by just a few words from him?