Fang Ruotang was so angry she almost laughed.

Li Qiuheng is giving a disciple who would harm his fellow disciples another chance.

Being imprisoned in the mountains for thirty years to reflect on one's mistakes seems like a severe punishment, but for cultivators, the harsh environment is actually a better way to temper their will.

Most importantly, he was not expelled from the sect and could continue to cultivate, so in essence, he was not truly punished.

Fang Ruotang didn't care about anything else, and used her spiritual power to shout loudly with all her might.

"Li Qiuheng, get your ass over here right now!"

"I went through so much trouble to find Yin Yue's soul and help her rebuild her body, and you actually let your disciples frame me?"

“You know best why your sect’s disciple Li Li was punished to spend thirty years in the back mountains to reflect on his mistakes. If you don’t come here right now, I’ll tell everyone in your sect that he was punished for cruelly killing a fellow disciple, not for overhearing that you were going to abandon Yin Yue for personal gain. You are a villain who protects a murderer.”

The disciples lying on the ground stared at Fang Ruotang with complicated expressions.

Even the little mirror couldn't help but speak up.

"My lord, you have already said so."

【Yes, I did it on purpose! It made him deserve it for not handling things fairly and impartially. But he should thank me, otherwise he'd have to take the blame with me.】

That's true. You're so kind, repaying evil with kindness.

"That's right! It's because I'm kind."

Fang Ruotang used her spiritual power to shout, and everyone in the weapon refining sect could hear it. Everyone was in an uproar. After all, if cruelly killing fellow disciples went unpunished, how could this sect possibly remain united?

However, there were two places where the reaction was the strongest.

One is inside the main hall.

Even Yin Yue, who was inside the jade pendant, heard Fang Ruotang's voice.

"Master, you..."

Damn it!

Li Qiuheng cursed and quickly left the hall, with the other elders following closely behind.

The other place is the back mountain.

Yingying suddenly turned her head to look at Zhang Li beside her and said angrily, "What? You weren't punished because of your senior sister? You're lying to me?"

Zhang Li's eyes flickered, but he quickly calmed down.

"What does it matter? We have the same goal: to kill her."

"No, I'm not like you. I want to avenge my senior sister, but if she can be resurrected, I'd be willing to kneel down and kowtow to her, let alone seek revenge against Sect Leader Fang. I'm not like you!"

After Yingying finished speaking, she suddenly attacked Zhang Li.

“You will come with me now to apologize to Sect Leader Fang. If this delays her from saving Senior Sister, I will absolutely not let you off the hook.”

Yingying followed Yin Yue wholeheartedly, and Yin Yue was also really good to this junior sister who was like a follower, never hiding anything good from her.

Therefore, her cultivation level was quite good. In addition, Zhang Li had been tortured before being thrown to the back mountain, making it even easier for her to beat him.

"Senior Sister Yingying, please listen to me!"

"You don't need to say anything more. Since this was a conspiracy between you and me, then we'll go together to apologize to Sect Master Fang. No one can hold my senior sister back."

She heard it clearly in what he just said.

Senior sister's soul has been found.

Moreover, the other party is also looking for materials to reshape the senior sister's physical body.

Those kinds of rare and precious materials are not something someone of her level could find.

So the only solution now is for her to suppress the tension and for the two of them to go to Sect Leader Fang and apologize. She'll accept whatever punishment is offered, as long as it doesn't interfere with saving her senior sister.

She's not the only one with this idea.

Someone quickly ascended the mountain on a sword.

If Yingying is Yin Yue's most loyal junior sister, then there are second, third, and fourth, because Yin Yue's good relationships within the weapon-refining sect are no joke.

Zhang Li was pinned down and unable to move. His face was full of hatred as he said, "Let me go! Let me go! You spineless cowards! You keep saying you like Senior Sister Yin, but now that she's been killed, you don't even know how to avenge her. What kind of bullshit do you like?!"

Yingying slapped Zhang Li hard across the face.

"You're talking nonsense! You know perfectly well that Sect Master Fang can retrieve Senior Sister's soul and help her rebuild her body, yet you still ask me to join you in avenging Senior Sister. Do you want to kill Senior Sister? Do you not want Senior Sister to be resurrected?"

Yingying was so angry that her whole body was trembling.

The thought that she hadn't even bothered to investigate anything, yet was foolish enough to conspire with such a person to deal with Sect Leader Fang, made her so angry that she slapped herself several times.

His fair and smooth cheeks instantly turned red and swollen, showing how much force he had used.

"Senior Sister Yingying, it's not your fault, you were also deceived by him."

Someone whispered a word of advice.

Everyone in the sect knows that Senior Sister Yingying was an abandoned baby that Senior Sister Yin and the sect leader picked up when they went out to train.

She was raised by Senior Sister Yin.

She usually clung to Senior Sister Yin and couldn't stand anyone saying a bad word about her.

Now that Senior Sister Yin has encountered such a thing, she is the one who is most heartbroken.

"I'm fine. You two hurry up and tie us up and hand us over to Sect Leader Fang. You must make her calm down. We can't let our stupid things implicate Senior Sister."

"Senior Sister Yingying, you've been fooled too, there's no need..."

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

Yingying tied herself up and urged her fellow disciples to hurry up and escort them down the mountain.

Zhang Li exclaimed incredulously, "Are you an idiot? We're going to die!"

"So be it!" Yingying roared viciously, her eyes bloodshot.

Normally, she wouldn't fall for a scam without checking everything.

Because this matter involved her senior sister, and because the elder's attitude was ambiguous before they entered the secret realm, she prejudicially assumed that the sect might not investigate her senior sister's death for the sake of its own interests.

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