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The Elder had no choice but to step down.
Lin Xin then asked about the recent situation of the Sword Sect.
Many disciples had died, and even more had deserted and fled.
Of ten thousand cultivators, sixty percent of the forces of the Outer Sect were gone, and twenty percent of the Inner Sect's core experts were also lost.
There was no helping it; the authority of the Order of Guardians was too terrifying.
But for Lin Xin, none of these were too great a pressure, except for the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal combined with a True Monarch's intervention which he was somewhat wary of; the rest, those of Yuan Jing Layer, were but chickens and dogs, not to be feared.
