No one could bear to look at Yuwen Taiji. He looked as indifferent as always, his heterochromatic pupils looking at the young manâs corpse. However, the elders by his side stepped away from him, feeling a heart-palpitating pressure from standing next to him.
âHand her over! Make her entire family accompany Shengcheng in death!â Yuwen Fengtian roared. Yuwen Fengtian coughed out blood again. Yuwen Shendu had been trained by his father, but this grandson was the one he had raised. Of Yuwen Shengchengâs bad temper, at least seventy percent had been a result of his pampering!
Yet now he was a headless corpse.
âHalt! No one knows the truth yet. You have no authority to pass down judgement! Killing between disciples falls under the Hall of Inquisitorsâ jurisdiction. Theyâll get to the bottom of this!â Ye Shaoqing tried to step forward, but the elders, other than Yuwen Taiji and Yuwen Fengtian, blocked his path.
Their eyes were filled with fire; it was obvious that if Ye Shaoqing took another step, they would attack.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âQingyu, say the truth!â Tianming had never expected things to devolve to this state. He had never even noticed any conflict between Li Qingyu and Yuwen Shengcheng.
Now, things had gotten troublesome. Tianming had never encountered such a problem before. Originally, things should have been smooth sailing after he became a prime disciple, but now this threatened to upend everything.
âBig brother....â Qingyu still seemed to be confused, but when she saw Ye Shaoqing and the rest still trying to fight for her, she knew this was her only chance to live!
She quickly grit her teeth and solemnly said, âIt was Su Wuyou and the others. They used Xiaofuâs parents to threaten her and lure me out of the sect. Yuwen Shengcheng and Li Xuanchen had a carefree fruit. They werenât only targeting me, but also killed Xiaofu! It wasnât that I wanted to fight them, but they wanted to turn me into an idiot and never let me come back. I just wanted to get revenge for Xiaofu....â
At the corner of her eye, a tear formed. However, it didnât fall in the end.
No one made a sound after hearing that. Some things were obvious, as long as you put some thought into it. Li Qingyu was part of the weaker side. If she wasnât pushed too far, why would she take such dangers and offend the current Yuwen clan?
âSo thatâs how it is!â
âShe must be telling the truth. I know her character, sheâs not the sort to offend others. Itâs Yuwen Shengcheng whoâs arrogant and likes to use his familyâs authority to bully others. I bet this isnât his first time!â
âWhat an embarrassment. He went with Li Xuanchen and ended up getting killed instead!â
People had already been leaning toward Tianmingâs side before. Furthermore, the Yuwen clan had bullied quite a few people in recent years, causing a lot of resentment to build up. Now, the boiling point had been reached. Although it wouldnât matter if it was just one or two people, it was now a full seventy thousand people saying it.
âHe deserved to die!â
âWhereâs that Su Wuyou? What prime disciple! She actually used someoneâs parents to threaten them?â
âWhat a joke. Two sixth-level Unity beastmasters, and they still got killed by Li Qingyu after using such schemes. Theyâre the jokes of our Grand-Orient Sect!â
âItâs obvious what Yuwen Shengcheng was trying to do. We all know what the carefree fruit does.â
âI feel ashamed to be a Grand-Orient Sect disciple like him!â
It wasnât just the hot-blooded young disciples saying such words now. Many Grand-Orient guardians and exalted masters were adding their voices in, too.
Tianming had no idea Li Qingyu had gone through such things. Every time heâd met Yuwen Shengcheng, the Yuwen scion had never ever shown any such indication of interest in Qingyu.
Tianming wasnât a god; there was no way he could know what Yuwen Shengcheng and Li Xuanchen had said in private. He wasnât even aware of the arrangement Li Xuanchen had tried to make for Li Jincanâs marriage.
Although Tianming understood he couldnât be faulted, he still felt some measure of responsibility after what Qingyu had encountered.
Fortunately, she had been able to make them pay the price.
However, he knew the Yuwen clan wouldnât let her off. It would be difficult for her to escape today. But that didnât mean he would just let it happen!
âGrand-Orient guardians, hand Li Qingyu over to the Hall of Inquisitors! They shall leave no stone unturned and seek out the truth. If her words are true, she is not guilty!â Ye Qing said, looking at Huangfu Fengyun. He hoped for him to put in a good word too.
However, despite Huangfu Fengyunâs desire, he still held back out of fear of Yuwen Taiji obtaining the Grand-Orient Sword. He knew how resolute the Yuwen clan would be in their goal of killing Qingyu. It was different from when Tianming had become the prime disciple. If he stopped them now, even getting on his knees and begging them may not let him keep his life in the future.
Even though Ye QIng and all of the disciples present were pressuring the guardians to release Qingyu, they still didnât dare to. Because the Yuwen clan was right here!
The circumstances couldnât be any more tense.
The sky darkened slightly, and flashes of blood-red light could be seen in the clouds. No one noticed this omen. The only thing they saw was that Yuwen Shendu stepped forward, ignoring all the condemnation as he grabbed Qingyu by the neck and lifted her up.
One slight squeeze and Qingyu would die.