Chapter 723: The Union’s Chairman (II) (1/2)
Chapter 723: The Union’s Chairman (II)
As a result of the previous day’s domain battle, Chen Hongyu had already displayed dissatisfaction. His sudden raising of an objection immediately caught all the surrounding attention. Everyone’s gaze landed on him.
Chen Hongyu stood up, a calm look on his face, “I express opposition to the proposal of making me a vice-chairman of the union.”
Yang Haohan looked at him in shock, doubtfully responding, “Brother Chen, you must think it over. You represent the Spiritual Temple.”
Chen Hongyu calmly explained, “I have already thought it through clearly. I only need to stay as a mere council member. This vice-chairmanship should belong to the new head of our Spiritual Temple.”
“What? A new head?” Hearing such words, the whole audience were greatly alarmed. In fact, the Spiritual Temple and Knight Temple were not the same. The Spiritual Temple had always had only one head. The Spiritual Temple’s head shifting was an extremely big matter for the Temple Alliance, the main point being that no one had gotten any prior notice. Chen Hongyu’s announcement was just too sudden.
Chen Hongyu declared calmly, “What is strange in that? Our Spiritual Temple has always been democratically ruled, centered around a Temple Head that must have capability. My Temple’s Chen Ying’er has already reached the ninth step of cultivation and has the Mythological Beast Domain, which is superior to my own. Moreover, she’s the first Spiritual Saint Daughter of my Spiritual Temple, and has inherited the Temple’s divine tool Spiritual Saint Robe. She couldn’t be more fitting to lead my Spiritual Temple as its head. Therefore, I naturally ought to leave her this vice-chairman position. Yesterday evening, our Spiritual Temple has already given a unified approval.”
Everyone seated on the rostrum could be said to have all different expressions. Long Haochen had an expression of shock, while the other heads of the Temples all cursed secretly, what a wily old fox.
How could it not be so? At the time of the Temples’ Great Gathering, Chen Hongyu’s play was marvellous. Not only did he harshly oppose Long Haochen, he even questioned him in the later domain battle. And upon reaching this critical juncture, he made a full turn by directly handing the Temple’s ownership over to Chen Ying’er. This implied that Bright Glimmer of Hope already had two major positions in the Temple Union. In the meantime, having one of their people among the vice-chairmen meant that a situation in which the six vice-chairmen would unite to impeach Long Haochen to deprive him from the chairman position would no longer be possible. This favor was simply immeasurable.
Even Li Zhengzhi couldn’t help but sigh secretly. How calculating! Chen Hongyu’s sudden abdication was not only shocking, but could also gain Bright Glimmer of Hope’s favor, as well a being a move to indirectly get the Knight Temple to owe him. Truly, it was a profound move.
Just after Chen Hongyu said this, he walked away from the raised stage, making a sign to Chen Ying’er while walking to the side of the Spiritual Temple in an easygoing manner.
Chen Ying’er was baffled by her grandfather’s move, but had no other choice but to go up on stage at that time! Forcing herself to walk up to the rostrum under multitudinous gazes, she took Chen Hongyu’s previous seat.
This instant, the Assassin Temple’s Sheng Yue unhappily uttered, “This old thing, you’re really taking a step ahead of me. I had the same proposal going on: our Assassin Temple’s headmaster has already been replaced by Cai’er as well. There’s no need for words to prove her ability. Everyone has seen her Domain of Purification, and moreover she’s the god of death’s inheritor, bestowed with the same Spiritual Stove of Samsara as the Scion of Samsara of that time. But she has, in some sense, already surpassed the latter. Ever since taking over this inheritance in her youth, she has already been settled as our Assassin Temple’s successor. Cai’er, come up. From now on, you are the head of the Assassin Temple and, in my stead, the candidate of the Assassin Temple for vice-chairmanship.”
Long Haochen was actually not so surprised about Sheng Yue’s proposal, after all, it was now a long time since when Sheng Yue had expressed that he’d let Cai’er take over his position. As such, Cai’er also went up. It took just an instant for three places on the rostrum to be filled with members of Bright Glimmer of Hope.
Yang Haohan declared, “As such, we will proceed with the meeting. Is there any other objection?”
As he asked that, he didn’t expect for there to really be a response.
The Warrior Temple’s head Qiu Yonghao suddenly stood up, and declared, “I am also getting old and am getting no good. Under my leadership, the Warrior Temple has gotten its worst results in history out of this session of the Temples’ Great Gathering. I truly have no more face left to act as Temple Head. I have already discussed this matter last evening with the rest of our representatives, and today, the seat of the head of the Warrior Temple shall be left to the younger generation. I hope that under her leadership, the Warrior Temple will have a brilliant future in the union resisting demonkind. Yuanyuan, please go up.”