After pushing Qin Zijin toward the black-spotted leopard, Ruan Xinrou quickly flew out of the forest. She flew for a long time before finally finding a lake, where she stayed for a whole day.
When she emerged from the lake, many cultivators had already arrived.
The previous major battle attracted a lot of attention.
When they arrived, the ground was littered with the corpses of cultivators. The scene was horrific.
Many people held the corpses tightly, weeping inconsolably.
These corpses were all their fellow disciples. They never expected that these people would lose their lives so soon after entering the Shadow Valley Trial!
"Junior sister... I told you long ago not to come. You are still too inexperienced and should not have come to such a dangerous place... Waaah, if I had known this would happen, I would have risked my life to stop you."
"Senior brother, please open your eyes and look at me! Please! Don't scare me..."
"Senior Sister, waaaaah, what should I do? How can I bring you back to life!"
The sounds of weeping filled the air. An indescribable grief permeated every corner of the place.
The most ironic thing is that finding a complete body is considered lucky; there are even various dismembered limbs on the ground, and no one knows who the owner is.
Su Yu also searched here with red eyes. When he first entered the trial grounds, Qin Zijing sent him a communication talisman, telling him where he was.
Su Yu searched frantically, trembling all over, and finally found a fragment of Qin Zijing's clothes. The cloth was stained red with blood, and he couldn't believe it.
He kept calling Qin Zijing's name, hoping for a miracle, but no one answered him.
They searched around the area until someone spotted Nguyen Tan Rou, who had just climbed out of the lake.
"Xinrou!" Su Yu shouted at her. When Ruan Xinrou saw Su Yu, she quickly ran towards him.
"Senior Brother! Waaaaaah!"
Tears streamed down Ruan Xinrou's face as she sobbed uncontrollably.
"Xinrou, what are you doing here? Where's Zijin? Have you seen him?"
Su Yu looked around anxiously, trying to find Qin Zijin, but Ruan Xinrou only kept crying and didn't answer him.
"Where's Zijing!" Su Yu shouted at her.
She then tearfully said, "My sixth senior brother was killed by the black-spotted leopard while trying to save me..."
After she finished speaking, her tears continued to fall.
Su Yu felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. "Impossible, no... Zijing can't be dead..."
At the same time, someone walked towards Ruan Xinrou. He looked at the injuries on Ruan Xinrou's body and said:
"You have claw marks from the black-spotted leopard on your body. You were also in that battle, weren't you? What exactly happened? We saw beast-attracting grass on the ground. Who lured those monsters here?"
This person's eyes were already blood red.
"If I find out who it is, I will tear him to pieces! Even if that person is bitten to death by a demonic beast, I will still go to his sect and demand an explanation!"
Ruan Xinrou's face turned pale instantly. Looking at the extremely angry expressions of the group of people in front of her, she knew that she absolutely could not reveal her identity.
"yes......"
Before Ruan Xinrou could finish speaking, Wang Miaomiao, who was not far away, said to Qin Zijin, "Do you think she would tell everyone? Someone as despicable as her wouldn't slander Bai Ying, would she?"
Looking at Wang Miaomiao's mocking expression, Qin Zijing subconsciously said, "She won't."
"Oh, you're still defending her? She's going to kill you!"
Qin Zijin's habit of protecting Ruan Xinrou was ingrained in his bones, and when he heard Wang Miaomiao say this, he still tried his best to make amends for Ruan Xinrou.
"My junior sister pushed me because it was too urgent, she really had no other choice..."
Qin Zijing felt increasingly inadequate as she spoke: "Anyway, she won't be like you described."
But as soon as he said that, he heard Ruan Xinrou say to the group of people in front of her, "It's Bai Ying. Bai Ying picked a lot of beast-attracting grass and shared it with everyone. That's why so many monsters appeared here."
Qin Zijing's face turned pale instantly, her heart trembled violently, and her expression was full of disbelief.
Wang Miaomiao looked at him with a mocking expression and sneered, "Is this what you meant by her not doing that? I really don't understand. She treated you like that, and you're still taking her side! You're so despicable! I feel so sorry for Bai Ying. She actually lived with a bunch of people like you who can't tell right from wrong for so long. I don't know how much she suffered!"
Even Qin Zijing herself felt that something was wrong at this moment.
He should hate Ruan Xinrou, so why is he so loyal to her? This loyalty seems to be completely beyond his control. Why is that?
Upon hearing Ruan Xinrou's words, Su Yu shouted at her, "Didn't I include information about the Beast-Attracting Grass in the data I gave you? Why didn't you tell everyone?"
Ruan Xinrou's face was deathly pale.
It was only at this point that she realized the information Su Yu had given her included Beast-Attracting Grass.
"I...I..." she stammered, "I told everyone, but Bai Ying insisted on slandering me, saying that I coveted her herbs, that I wanted her to throw them away so I could secretly pick them up. She also said that those spiritual herbs smelled very fragrant and must be very powerful herbs, and encouraged everyone to go and pick them together."
Everyone believed Bai Ying, but no one believed me. Yet, when the monsters arrived, Bai Ying was the first to flee.
Ruan Xinrou spoke through tears, secretly gloating. She had shifted all the blame onto Bai Ying, leaving Bai Ying with no way to defend herself. This way, everyone would hate Bai Ying, and she could steal Bai Ying's luck points.
Very good!
But she had no idea that Bai Ying and her group were not far from her, and they heard her telling the truth.
The group of cultivators around Bai Ying were utterly shocked by her shamelessness.
I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone this shameless!
She actually pinned all the shameful things she herself had done on Bai Ying.
Qin Zijin was utterly shocked. All his goodwill towards Ruan Xinrou crumbled, and he laughed at himself for making a fool of himself.
The group immediately stood up from the lake, wanting to rush over and insult Ruan Xinrou, but Bai Ying stopped them.
"Don't move yet, I'll confront her myself."
Bai Ying strode towards Ruan Xinrou.
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