Chapter 452 - My Problems (1/2)
The elders looked around at each other, not expecting a direct confrontation from the sect leader.
They didn't know how to respond and waited for someone to speak.
”Sect leader,” the Fifth elder spoke. ”You were ill for a while before you were healed. Are you alright now?”
”Yes, I'm mostly fine, Fifth Elder. There have been some… complications, but it has nothing to do with my health thankfully,” Ma Rong said.
”Oh, complications? Is that why you went into closed cultivation? To deal with it?” the Fifth Elder asked again.
”Yes, that was the reason,” Ma Rong said.
”So, was it such a bad complication that you had to ignore the sect handling?” the elder asked.
”Can we learn what sort of complication it was, and if you've solved it,” another elder asked.
”Oh right! I heard the Sect Leader awaken her constitution. Is that what the complications were about?” another elder asked.
”Yes,” Ma Rong said. ”Do to my awakened constitutions, I had some problems. It still persists however and I will need a lot more training to solve it.”
”Huh? What sort of constitutions require so long to fix? What sort of constitutions create problems in the first place?” an elder asked.
”That right. Aren't constitutions supposed to be just something a body automatically has? It's not like a poison that tries to kill a body, right?” another elder asked.
”How much longer would you say you need to control it all?” an elder asked.
The First elder looked at Ma Rong and sighed. The sect leader was showing too much indifference to the questions and he was worried she would start to give answers without much thought.
The Great elder was also worried but for a different reason. He had decided to keep the awakened constitution a secret, but it seemed it was leaked around somehow. He had also later learned about Ma Rong's inability to make pills anymore and was worried the elders would find out.
If they did, he had no doubts that they would try to throw her away from the sect leader's spot. After all, most of them were around when Ma Rong was named the next sect leader by the previous sect leader and the elders were mostly against it.
They were all looking for a reason to throw Ma Rong away from that spot, and they were just about to get that opportunity.
Ma Rong looked at the lot of them and said, ”I will still need many months if I want to properly deal with my new constitution.”
”What?”
”A few months?”
”A sect leader can't disappear for that long. We need guidance.”
”The sect needs guidance from its leader. We can't have someone who won't deal with the sect for so long keep on becoming the sect leader,” the elders shouted.
The Great Elder was shocked at Ma Rong's answer. ”Little Ma, what are you doing?” he asked softly.
”It's fine, Master,” Ma Rong said from the side.
”Sect leader, we… we can't go on with our sect leader missing for so long. Is there no other way?” the seventh elder asked.
”When did I say I was going to disappear for so long?” Ma Rong asked. ”I just said that I need many months to deal with my condition, that's all.”
The few elders that were genuinely concerned about the sect breathed a sigh of relief, while the ones that were looking forward to her removal frowned.
”Can you guarantee that you will be available from now on, sect leader?” one of the elders asked.
”No,” Ma Rong said. ”But that was always the case, wasn't it? There have been times before I've gone on closed cultivation. I understand the sect is growing now, but it's not that different yet, is it?”
”Right, you should take care of yourself, sect leader. We will take care of the sect if you are absent sometimes,” the seventh elder said.
The few elders were getting desperate after seeing how well the meeting was going in Ma Rong's favor.
”I heard disciple Yu Ming returned to the sect today, is that true?” one of the elders asked.
”Yes, he did,” Ma Rong said.
”Did you meet him, sect leader?” the elders asked.
”Yes, just before this,” Ma Rong said.