Bai Suning was completely bewildered, and when she looked over, she was also confused: "What do you mean?"

"Isn't the reason you refused our request to send someone to protect you because you already have someone protecting you?" The third elder asked tentatively. He always felt that the dean was overthinking some things.

"No, how could you think of that?" Bai Suning smiled, very innocent and carefree. "I refused protection because I felt I could solve those problems on my own. There was no need to waste too much of the academy's resources."

The third elder continued to ask, "Really?"

"Really." Bai Suning confirmed.

The third elder's eyes flickered slightly, and a trace of emotion passed through his mind.

He said that it was different from what the dean said, and that the dean sometimes just thought too much.

"Why do you suddenly ask this question?" Bai Suning was a little curious about this, blinking her eyes.

"The dean told us that you don't want our academy to send someone to protect you because the Venerable has been secretly watching over your safety." The third elder didn't think much about it and said it calmly, not feeling that there was anything wrong.

"How is that possible?" Bai Suning retorted.

Jun Yunyan would never protect her safety in secret.

At most, he came to save her when he learned that her life was in danger.

Husky: “????”

If I don’t protect you secretly, how can I know that your life is in danger and save you?

The third elder didn't ask any more questions and took her to the small dark room.

When they arrived, the fourth elder was already sitting opposite the girl, looking at her seriously.

Bai Suning sat down nearby, waiting to watch the interrogation.

The fourth elder waited here alone for quite a while, feeling a bit down, and started to scold the third elder: "Where have you been? Why are you here so late?"

"I talked about something with Bai Suning." The third elder explained.

Bai Suning smiled apologetically.

The Fourth Elder's expression froze. He coughed lightly and said to the Third Elder with a bit of awkwardness, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Did you finish your conversation? If not, why don't you go out and talk for a while?"

That's the Venerable's man.

Don't offend.

"Let's get started." The third elder ignored his impropriety.

The fourth elder glanced at the two men and began to interrogate them.

After several questions were asked, the girl kept acting as if she was being wronged, and she kept denying it until the last question came out.

"Xiao Lin, do you admit to assassinating Bai Suning?"

"No."

"Are you sure you don't recognize it?"

"I didn't do this. I was wronged."

The Fourth Elder glanced at the Third Elder with a serious expression, "But according to the evidence we have investigated, it was you who assassinated Bai Suning."

"I have no reason to kill her," the girl argued, refusing to admit it. "I have no grudge against her, why would I do this?"

"Your superior, Senluo Palace, gave the order." The fourth elder continued.

The girl paused, and her expression changed slightly.

The third and fourth elders saw this smiling process.

"I don't understand what you are saying." The girl continued to argue, with a bit more panic and nervousness in her eyes.

The fourth elder and the third elder looked at each other, then looked at Bai Suning.

Bai Suning was somewhat surprised by the girl's answer. At least from her last sentence and expression, it was clear that she was a capable actress.

It is impossible that someone from Senluo Palace ordered her to do this.

However, she showed a subtle panic after hearing about Senluo Palace, and she deliberately showed this panic to the elders.

"Bai Suning, what are you going to do?" The fourth elder threw the question to her.

"Just show the footage of her stabbing me."

Hearing this.

The fourth elder took out the spirit ball and began to show the scene of the girl assassinating Bai Suning.

The moment she saw the picture, the girl's pupils shrank.

It seems that no one expected this thing to appear.

The Fourth Elder took in all her expressions, frowned, and asked her seriously, "Is there anything else you want to say now?"

"I..." the girl tried to explain.

But now it was a done deal. Even if she said that she was trying to help Bai Suning knock down the snake or spirit beast behind her, no one would believe her.

Seeing that she remained silent, the Third Elder explained the academy's rules: "According to the academy's rules, anyone who attempts to murder a classmate will be expelled from the academy and punished. The specific details of the punishment will be proposed by the victim. If the victim is not present, the elders will determine it."

"I..." The girl panicked.

She looked at the third elder, then at the fourth elder, then fell to her knees with a plop, her eyes red.

Both of them remained indifferent.

"I... I was forced to do this." The girl was nervous, her heart pounding with panic. "It was the people from Senluo Palace who threatened me with my family. If I didn't do what they said, my family would be killed."

"Evidence." The third elder asked her.

"Evidence... I, I don't have any evidence." The girl burst into tears, tears falling down her face. "They directly threatened me, I..."

I didn't dare to say the rest of the words because of panic and fear.

Seeing this situation, the third elder and the fourth elder both looked towards Bai Suning.

Let her decide.

Bai Suning refused to believe that someone from Senluo Palace would come to kill her. She walked up to the girl, looked at her sad and pitiful expression, and asked, "You said the person threatening you was from Senluo Palace. Do you know what the Senluo Palace token looks like?"

"No, I don't know..." The girl shook her head, tears still falling.

Under normal circumstances.

Disciples from other forces other than Senluo Palace will only know a general idea about the Senluo Palace token.

There is nothing wrong with this answer.

"Do you dare to swear?" Bai Suning already had a plan in mind, and the look in her eyes was more or less inquiring. "If the person who threatened you is really from Senluo Palace, I will not hold you responsible and will let you go. If this is just a lie, from now on your cultivation will plummet and you will never be able to advance to the next level. How about that?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The third elder and the fourth elder both looked at her with some surprise in their eyes.

This method is really...

"Yes, sure." The girl agreed.

"I have a way to get to the bottom of this." Bai Suning didn't like being lied to, so she habitually made things clear in advance. "If it turns out later that it wasn't someone from Senluo Palace who threatened you, I will personally destroy your cultivation and prevent you from ever advancing in your lifetime."

"Okay." The girl agreed again.

For her.

The person who instructed her to explain this matter was originally wearing Senluo Palace clothes. Even if the other party later found out that the person was not from Senluo Palace, she could still argue that she only recognized Senluo Palace clothes and didn't know he was pretending.

Bai Suning couldn't possibly punish her again.