Proposition

"They need to be punished."

This calm voice was the first thing in my entire experience in this world to terrify me. Devoid of any hate, anger or enmity, it seemed to encompass the entire room, while holding immense authority over everyone who heard it. I think that if not for my recent breakthrough, I would simply get off my seat, kneel on the floor and accept any kind of punishment that this old man meant!

It's not like I didn't know about the existence of various monster-level cultivators behind most of the powerhouses, but meeting them in reality for the first time only served to steel my resolve to avoid any potential conflict with them! While I could be sure that they wouldn't make a move for as long I didn't tease their bottom line, I realised that I would've to rethink some of the plans that I intended to implement in the future!