After a long moment of silence that followed after what Lin Fan said, Senior Brother Ying revealed a serious look.
He looked at Lin Fan and said, “Sect master, do you really think that this is the best idea? We don’t know what the enemies of our sect are planning to do.”
Lin Fan just gave a shrug and said, “What enemies?”
They all couldn’t help being shocked and confused when they heard this, but after thinking about it for a bit, they realized that…he was right.
The enemies that had destroyed the Love Sect were now indeed gone.
That was because Emperor Mu had taken care of all of these enemies.
Though the reason why he did this wasn’t because he wanted to take revenge for the Love Sect.
The reason he had done this was to sweep out the forces that would have opposed Mu Bao Bao’s ascension to the throne. At the same time, he was taking care of all the princes that would have gone against Mu Bao Bao taking the throne.
After all, it was the princes working with those sects to attack the Love Sect.
They had done it to eliminate Mu Bao Bao to avoid her becoming the biggest contender against them for the throne.
But in the end, all that did was drive her to take the throne…
It really was a strange turn of circumstances.
When Emperor Mu had ordered Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao to attack the Gale Sect, he had also attacked all of the other sects that had attacked the Love Sect.
So now that all of those sects were eliminated, there really weren’t any enemies that were left for the Love Sect.
It was possible that there were remnants of those sects that had escaped, but it was very unlikely since Emperor Mu had been thorough about this. The only possibility was that they were distant relatives of the sect members that had escaped this net.
But even if that was the case, it wasn’t as if they would be cultivators.
So there shouldn’t be a problem.
Since they no longer had any enemies out there, then there really wasn’t a reason for them to hide themselves.
But Senior Brother Ying and the others couldn’t help feeling worried about this.
If they hid themselves, they could slowly develop and one day become powerful enough to shake the world. But if they revealed themselves, it was very likely that they would attract more enemies.
Right now, the Love Sect was in a fragile state and was much weaker than before.
If anything did happen, they wouldn’t have the same strength as before to fight back with.
So there was a risk to revealing themselves.
Lin Fan could see the looks on their faces and could guess what they were thinking, so he said, “But we’ll never truly get stronger if we keep hiding ourselves like this.”
When Senior Brother Ying heard this, he knitted his brows once more.
He naturally knew what Lin Fan was referring to. 𝗈𝐯𝑙xt.𝗇𝓔t
Battle experience.
By hiding themselves, they would be able to increase their cultivation because of the resources that they were receiving both from Lin Fan and the Mu Empire, or rather from Mu Bao Bao. As long as they kept cultivating properly, they wouldn’t have a problem breaking through.
However, that was only breaking through in terms of cultivation.
As long as they never went out, they would never be able to get combat experience.
They could fight the spirit beasts that were in Senior Sister Bing’s Minor World, but that wouldn’t give them the experience that they needed. They needed to actually go out into the world and face life and death situations to learn how to survive, as well as grow their combat experience.
Without that, they would be weaker than other cultivators even if they had a higher cultivation.
So without this, they would be nothing more than a fluffed up cat.
A high cultivation without the combat experience to properly utilize it.
There was a long silence that followed after Lin Fan said these words since they all knew that he was right…
In the end, Senior Brother Ying said, “Sect master, if we do this, we have to do this properly. I hope that when the time comes, the sect master will show up properly and support us.”
Senior Brother Ying didn’t have a problem in holding this sect recruitment since he had helped the elders of the Love Sect hold these ceremonies before.
But since this was also a ceremony to declare that the Love Sect was back, he needed Lin Fan’s help.
Lin Fan was the sect master, so he had to appear at this ceremony.
Normally, Lin Fan just did whatever he wanted and rarely appeared at the Love Sect.
His appearance this time had caught them off guard, but they didn’t mind it since they knew that he came and went.
But for the sect opening and sect recruitment, they needed Lin Fan to be there as the sect master.
If he ran off again…then it would really hurt the prestige of their sect.
Lin Fan could tell that there was something troublesome that was coming, but he also had his own reasons for doing this.
So he said with a nod, “I’ll fully support you in this matter.”
Senior Brother Ying revealed a wide smile when he heard this before saying, “Then we’ll depend on the sect master. From now on, you should live in our Love Sect until the sect recruitment comes.”
Lin Fan was surprised by this, but he gave a nod in response.
He had his own reason for wanting this sect recruitment to be a success, so he would do what he could to help Senior Brother Ying arrange this.
It seemed that this matter was settled with that and everyone was excited to go take care of this matter.
But Senior Brother Ying suddenly said, “Then sect master, shall we?”
Lin Fan revealed a confused look at first before suddenly understanding what Senior Brother Ying was referring to.
He was referring to their spar that should have taken place.
Lin Fan cupped his hands and said, “Please.”
Senior Brother Ying cupped his hands and lowered his head as he also said, “Please.
However, Senior Brother Ying had an evil smile on his face when he did this.
Then all of a sudden, Senior Brother Ying pulled out his sword and slashed out at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan was caught off guard by this sudden attack, but he gathered his black flames around him and formed a shield that blocked this sword energy.
The black flames clashed with the sword energy and burned away the sword energy, not leaving a single trace behind.
But Senior Brother Ying hadn’t been idle during this.
With his speed, he was able to easily get behind Lin Fan and sent out another slash at him.
Lin Fan was barely able to catch up in time to create another black flame shield behind him.
As he did this, Senior Brother Ying noted that he had dissipated the black flames in front of him. It seemed like there was only a certain amount of black flames that he could use at the same time, so when he called out more black flames, he needed to dissipate the black flames he had already gathered.
This presented a chance for Senior Brother Ying.
With his higher level of cultivation, he was able to completely overwhelm Lin Fan in terms of speed.
He was able to circle around Lin Fan, attacking him with various sword energy attacks from different angles.
It forced Lin Fan to do all he could with the black flames to protect against the sword energy falling down on him.
But he wasn’t able to keep up with Senior Brother Ying in the end and the sword energy started to cut up his body.
When Senior Brother Ying saw this, he revealed a smile.
That was because this was the little bit of revenge that he was taking on Lin Fan.
Suddenly springing this sect recruitment event on him like this and throwing all the work to him…of course he was bitter about this.
But of course, there was no killing intent behind these attacks.
These were just minor cuts on Lin Fan’s skin that would heal in no time, so it was like giving him a noogie.
However, Lin Fan also didn’t seem to panic over this.
Even though he was being suppressed by Senior Brother Ying’s sword energy, he didn’t seem like he was scared at all.
It almost seemed like there was a trace of excitement in his eyes being pushed into this situation, even though it seemed like he was doing all that he could just to protect himself against the sword energy with the black flames.
As for why he wasn’t using other techniques…there wasn’t any other technique that he could use to block this sword energy.
There were two minor realms between them, so the sword energy was much stronger than his normal attacks.
It was only the Hell Flames, which was one of the Primordial Flames that had the ability to stop these sword attacks.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Fan said, “This won’t work.”
Senior Brother Ying suddenly stopped after hearing this and said, “Are you planning on giving up?”
Lin Fan looked at Senior Brother Ying before shaking his head and saying, “No, it’s time for me to get serious.”
After saying that, there were two more forms of energy that appeared around him.