"What did you say?"
The middle-aged man in a white robe standing among the crowd retorted, "That thief definitely didn't escape from the range of the formation. You must have made a mistake in your search!"
The skinny old man snorted coldly upon hearing this, "I have already used my eyesight to inspect every inch of it. Not to mention a living person, even an ant or a fly cannot escape the eyes of the stars. How can there be any mistakes?
But you, Wei Qing, were not responsible for the proper care of the incense pool. What crime should you be punished for?"
"Luo Mingsheng!"
The middle-aged man in white robe was shocked and angry. Before he could say anything, he was interrupted by the Lord of Thousand Stars Palace.
"Shut up! You still want to stir up trouble between the two families at this time? Do you still take me, the Palace Master, seriously?"
The Thousand Stars Palace Master spoke in a calm tone, but the oppressive force revealed in his words made people's backs chill. Everyone below stopped talking and remained silent.
The hall was silent for a moment. The Thousand Star Hall Master seemed to have thought of something and raised his gaze coldly: "Have any outsiders come up the mountain recently?"
The elder in charge of receiving disciples from outside the sect immediately stepped forward and said hesitantly, "In the past two weeks, no outsiders have visited the mountain, but..."
"But what? Just say it if you have something to say." The Lord of Thousand Stars Palace was a little impatient.
The elder sighed inwardly, and finally confessed, "When the true disciple Tang Yecheng returned, he brought with him an outer sect disciple. She is a disciple of the Wanjian Sect and the daughter of the true disciple Luo Qingyun. Her name is Luo Sheng."
At this point, the elder paused and added, "This girl is only thirteen years old this year, and has reached the ninth level of Qi training."
The hall suddenly fell into silence.
There was no way a thirteen-year-old girl, with the cultivation level of the Qi Refining Stage, could escape from the hands of a Yuanying Stage cultivator. Even if everyone in the scene used their toes to think, they knew that the thief could not be Luo Ran.
However, ideas are just ideas, but when the words come out of everyone's mouths, their meaning changes.
"Luo Qingyun's daughter didn't come earlier or later, but chose to come on the day of the incident. If there isn't something strange about this, it's probably unacceptable, right?"
Wei Qing brushed his wrinkled white sleeves and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
As soon as these words came out, Luo Mingsheng's face darkened. "Wei Qing, you've lived for over five hundred years, and today you shamelessly slander a thirteen-year-old girl. Do you still have any shame?!"
"The child may be innocent, but who knows whether the person behind the child is innocent?"
Wei Qing snorted coldly, not even looking at Luo Ming who was fuming with anger. He bowed and said, "Palace Master, this matter is very strange and must be investigated! Whether the child is related to this matter, we can find out by searching his soul."
"Soul search?!"
Luo Mingsheng's expression changed slightly: "This is absolutely not allowed! If we search the soul, the child will be ruined."
The Thousand Star Palace Master tapped the seat with his knuckles but received no response.
Luo Mingsheng looked at it and his heart suddenly trembled. Is the Palace Master... wavering?
He gritted his teeth and was about to persuade her again when he heard a loud shout from outside the hall, "Palace Master, please think twice."
Hearing the voice of the visitor, the Thousand Star Hall Master immediately stood up and looked at the hunched figure that hurried in. His expression relaxed slightly: "Uncle Chang Yan, what brings you here?"
"If I hadn't come, you would have really searched the soul of that little girl Luo Sheng!"
Master Chang Yan's face was gloomy, with a hint of anger in it. "Searching the soul has damaged the very essence of the spirit. That little girl is just at the Qi Refining stage. I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on for two breaths before her soul is shattered!"
"Elder Chang Yan is wrong."
Wei Qing sneered, "The incense is related to billions of lives in Dongzhou. If we can sacrifice the life of this little girl Luo Sheng, we can save the entire Dongzhou. Why not do it?"
"You fart!"
Chang Yan Zhenren was truly enraged and cursed, "Luo Chen is only thirteen years old, just an ignorant child. What could she possibly understand? She just happened to be taking a ride to visit her mother's sect. How could she be connected to a thief who stole incense offerings?"
"Wei Qing, and Uncle Master, please stop arguing."
The Thousand Stars Palace Master had a headache. "How about letting Luo Sheng come in for questioning first? Uncle Master, you can just watch from the sidelines. No one will hurt her. How about that?"
Master Chang Yan snorted, "That's more like it."
"Send the order down, summon Luo Sheng into the palace for questioning!"
Xiang Sheng had been waiting outside the hall for a long time. When she heard what was said inside, she didn't react at all. But Tang Yin next to her was so nervous that her face turned pale.
"Rong'er, our master is watching over us in there, just tell the truth!"
She clutched Xiang Sheng's sleeve tightly. "Although our fight with the Wei family is fierce, the Palace Master is not from either of these two families. His judgment will naturally be fair and he will definitely not implicate you."
"Don't worry, Sister Tang."
Xiang Sheng responded, then took a deep breath and pretended to be nervous as he stepped into the hall.
She bowed her head as she walked past the elders on both sides of the hall, came to the seat, and saluted respectfully: "I am Luo Sheng, a disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and I pay my respects to the Master of the Thousand Stars Hall."
"Get up."
A faint voice came from the seat. When Xiang Sheng heard it, his body suddenly stiffened, and the pupils under his eyelids contracted immediately. He almost couldn't maintain his composure.
She suppressed the shock in her heart, stood up and looked upwards.
She saw a middle-aged man in a golden robe sitting on the seat of the Thousand Stars Palace Master, looking at her with scrutiny.
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