"This alliance between the two sects and an unknown pretender will collapse within days. When it does, remember that we offered you legitimate partnership that you rejected out of misplaced ambition."
"Then I suppose there's nothing left to discuss," Jinmu said as he rose from his position, his movement creating subtle ripples of ki pressure that reminded everyone present of the vast power difference between himself and every other person in the assembly hall.
"Indeed there is not," Elder Noe Wonseok replied coldly, electrical energy crackling around his fingertips as his barely controlled anger affected his cultivation stability. "We have wasted enough time listening to the delusions of someone who clearly doesn't understand how the orthodox world actually functions."
They're about to leave. The orthodox alliance will shatter just when unity is most crucial for survival against the unorthodox threat.
