The Third Elder was furious. "Su Nian! The evidence is irrefutable, are you still going to smear Ye Hua?!"
Su Nian gripped her longsword tightly, her voice low and menacing. "I smeared him? I harmed my fellow disciples? He was the one who did all this, so why should I bear the blame? You don't trust me, you abandoned me, imprisoned me, and insulted me! What did I do wrong to become such a stray dog?"
He looked at Su Liuli with tearful, desperate eyes and asked, "Master, I'm really... so tired..."
In the sky, Su Liuli felt as if her heart was being torn apart.
She wanted to hug Su Nian, pull him into her arms, and tell him in the gentlest voice that her master would never doubt her in this lifetime!
She knew that Su Nian wouldn't hear what she was saying at that moment.
But she still wanted to say something.
Just as she was about to speak, the other Su Liuli spoke up.
"Su Nian, this is your own fault."
In the sky, Su Liuli was suddenly startled!
She looked at herself, her eyes filled with disappointment, and the shock she felt was beyond words.
Nian'er is my most trusted disciple, how could I treat him like this?
"Is that so..."
Su Liuli's words plunged Su Nian into utter despair.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He then mustered the last of his strength, picked up the sword, and pointed it at Ye Hua!
Ye Hua stood still, unmoved.
There was even a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
With a clang, the sword in Su Nian's hand was knocked away.
The person blocking Ye Hua's way was none other than Su Liuli.
Su Nian seemed to have anticipated this outcome from the beginning. Kneeling on the ground, looking at the long sword pointed at her face, she raised her head and met Su Liuli's disappointed eyes.
"Kill me, okay?" Su Nian said to Su Liuli.
"Crush my cultivation, then kill me, is that alright, Master?"
Su Liuli, holding the longsword, hesitated for a long time before making a move.
In the sky, Su Liuli stared at Su Nian's gaze, unable to recover for a long time.
This look in her eyes gradually overlapped with the look in her eyes in the Hall of Law Enforcement that day in her memory. In a daze, she seemed to understand why Nian'er wanted her to personally cripple his cultivation.
Could it be that this isn't a dream, but rather a projection of some kind of future?
Su Liuli's face turned extremely ugly.
So, if the claim that Nian'er colluded with the demons was actually confirmed that day, not only would the sect be invaded by the demons, but Nian'er would also be harmed.
Just as she was thinking this, a figure stood between Su Nian and Su Liuli.
It's Xu Xinrou.
She opened her arms and chose to stand on Su Nian's side.
"Rou'er, what do you mean by this?" Su Liuli looked at Xu Xinrou with eyes full of disappointment.
“I trust Junior Brother Su! He is innocent!” Xu Xinrou said loudly.
Su Liuli sighed and asked, "Even now, do you still choose him?"
"I'd like to ask Master, why do you never believe Junior Brother Su's words?"
Su Liuli shook her head. "It's not that I'm unwilling to trust him, but with the evidence, right and wrong are already determined."
"But I don't believe in evidence!" Xu Xinrou stared intently at Su Liuli and said, "Evidence can be forged! I only believe in character! Junior Brother Su and I grew up together since childhood, I know his character better than anyone! But you! Master! You are the one who raised Junior Brother to adulthood, why! Have you never believed in his character? Not even once!"
Su Liuli fell silent.
The Third Elder angrily rebuked from the side, "Get out of the way! Xu Xinrou! This is a matter of great importance to the sect! You cannot be allowed to make trouble like this!"
"Precisely because this is a major matter for the sect, we must find out the truth!" Xu Xinrou said loudly.
"The truth is right before our eyes! What else is there to say? Get out of my way! Or I'll kill you too!" the Third Elder said sternly.
"I won't allow it! Junior Brother Su is innocent! I can't just stand by and watch him be unjustly killed!!" Xu Xinrou shouted this with all her might.
Su Nian was moved.
Not only him, but even Su Liuli, who was observing all of this from the sky, was moved.
Xu Xinrou's trust in Su Nian has transcended the bond between fellow disciples, reaching a new peak.
"You're courting death!" The Third Elder's eyes hardened, and he thrust his sword at Xu Xinrou.
But at that very moment, someone intervened and stopped the Third Elder.
When the Third Elder saw who was blocking her way, she was immediately puzzled. "Second Senior Sister! Why are you stopping me?"
The Second Elder said calmly, "I was just saving Xinrou."
The Third Elder angrily retorted, "Then I can spare her life! Surely I can kill this Su Nian!"
The Second Elder nodded. "I can kill him, but I must do it."
"Why?"
"Because the Enforcement Hall is under my jurisdiction," the Second Elder said calmly.
The Third Elder had nothing to say.
The Second Elder came to Xu Xinrou and Su Nian's side and whispered something in Xu Xinrou's ear, but no one could hear it.
But after that, Xu Xinrou glanced at Su Nian with lingering reluctance and returned to her sect.
Su Nian was led into the woods by the Second Elder, and Su Liuli followed.
Upon entering the woods, the Second Elder suddenly unleashed a sword strike! Aiming straight for Su Nian's head!
Su Liuli was suddenly startled!
"Senior sister, no!!"
...
On the bed, Su Liuli sat up instantly, panting heavily, her whole body soaked in sweat.
She covered her head; the dream she had just had was exceptionally vivid, so vivid that she couldn't even tell whether it was a dream or reality.
"Nian'er...was she killed by Senior Sister?"
She bit her lower lip tightly with her pearly teeth.
She didn't understand.
I don't understand why the version of myself in the dream distrusts Nian'er so much. I don't understand why Nian'er, who has made great contributions to protecting the sect, should end up like this.
But at the same time, she also understood that only she, from God's perspective, could understand these things.
She rehearsed everything in her mind and was horrified to discover that if Nian'er had been convicted in the Hall of Law Enforcement that day, then all of this was possible!
She felt breathless and got out of bed, eager to see Su Nian.
She wanted to hold the desperate Su Nian in her arms and gently tell him that she would never do anything to hurt him again in her life!
Absolutely not!
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