Yu Pyo asked with a shocked expression, “Why weren’t they expelled?” From what I’d heard, there was more than enough reason to expel them. Even if they hadn’t intended to kill their sworn brothers, hadn’t they ended up killing them in the end?
“As far as I know, they were lay disciples….”
No Un turned to Yu Pyo.
“That’s right.”
Yu Rang and Yu Ga had not been expelled. They had merely been stripped of their status as direct disciples and forced to leave the main sect immediately. That was why those who did not know the details of the incident remembered them as lay disciples.
“There were elders who opposed their expulsion at the time. I later learned that one of those elders was a distant relative of Yu Rang. He belonged to one of the lay families that formed the financial foundation of Mount Hua.”
“What…?”
That was absurd. Those who entered a sect originally severed their ties with the world and vowed to live solely as disciples of the Mount Hua sect. The more one aspired to become a direct disciple, the more one’s family, origins, and background should have been considered irrelevant from the moment one entered the Sect.
“That… That’s impossible! How could they bring blood relations into a sect decision? How could the sect leader allow it? I don’t understand!”
“We felt the same way.”
No Baek’s generation had also been unable to accept the decision.