Zhi Rui turned around, Looking at Chao Cheng with emotionless eyes.
He continued. "While they weren't guarded against you before, it didn't matter. But now, you swiped the floor with their faces. And the fact that we have to collect more subordinates from home because an unknown disciple raised the bar of the competition is humiliating."
He cut another piece of meat and chewed while speaking. Not caring for manners.
"They can afford to lose against peers, but you're not a peer, you're a poor, cutthroat cultivator, from a backwater corner. And you just proved yourself able to beat them, they all can only reach one conclusion; to gather and put the nuisance down."
He threw her three-letter envelopes "This is three different invitation for a talk, and their common words are 'The event of today.' That event is you."
Zhi Rui was visibly unmoved. Her cold eyes hovered on him, without flinching. "I expected that. I incited it. It just happened earlier than I thought." She said.