After hearing that, Yan Liren, Ba Xiaoyu, and Master Bitter Cicada all looked at Qi Zhongdao in bewilderment.
After all, Qi Zhongdao, the nominal 'leader of all the Cultivators', had always firmly stood on the Cultivators' side to check and balance the court's force. One might even say that he was the representative of all the Cultivators!
"With the assistance of Wang Xi," Li Yao said, "the late emperor almost suppressed the entire world of Cultivators, but it raised the intense dissatisfaction among the main sects. After Emperor Phoenix ascended to the throne, perhaps under the pressure of the Cultivation sects or perhaps because he did not trust Wang Xi, he deprived Wang Xi of all his power overnight!
