Elder Liu saw a spaceship catching up with him and slowly slowed down the speed of the spaceship. When he saw that the person catching up was Li Xiao, he was shocked.
"Master Li!" Elder Liu bowed to Li Xiao.
"Let everyone on the boat come out," Li Xiao said coldly. He hated being deceived the most, and today he had been deceived by an unknown little person. How could he swallow this humiliation?
"Master Li, what on earth happened?" Elder Liu was both angry and worried. He was a member of the Secluded Immortal Palace after all, so how could he just do whatever others said?
Li Xiao had come to investigate his son's murder. Could it be that one of his own disciples had killed his son? This was simply impossible. Although Long Yijian had reached the middle stage of the Golden Immortal Realm, he was a bully. Given Li Xiao's domineering personality, how could his son's character be much better?
"What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up!" Li Xiao said angrily. He didn't have that much patience right now.
Elder Liu was shocked by Li Xiao's momentum. His chest was churning and he almost vomited blood. Knowing that he could not compete with Li Xiao, he nodded helplessly and said, "Master Li, please wait a moment!" In front of such powerful strength, what could he do even if he didn't want to bow his head?
Entering the cabin, Elder Liu called out to everyone in the room, "Master Li of Xuanyuan Sect wants to see you. Please be careful with your words and don't provoke Master Li, otherwise I won't be able to protect you, understand?"
"Yes!" everyone responded.
Zhan Yihan and Su Jinyue exchanged a look. Did Li Xiao chase after them because he discovered something?
Following Elder Liu to the deck, they saw Li Xiao standing there, looking at them with his eyes slightly narrowed.
Seeing Zhan Yihan, Li Xiao's face turned cold. He released his spiritual sense and scanned Zhan Yihan carefully, a hint of doubt in his eyes. The other party was indeed at the peak of the late Sanxian stage. Could it be that he had been deceived by Lu Shu?
"Come here." Li Xiao said to Zhan Yihan.
Su Jinyue worriedly squeezed Zhan Yihan's hand. Zhan Yihan shook his head at her and gave her a reassuring look. "Don't worry! I'll be fine."
Slowly releasing Su Jinyue's hand, Zhan Yihan walked in front of Li Xiao, bowed respectfully to him, and called out in a trembling voice: "Senior...Senior..."
Li Xiao looked at Zhan Yihan with cold eyes, "Someone told me that you killed my son."
"Pfft!" A laugh came from the side.
Li Xiao glanced at Zhao Yan coldly, then looked at the others, and saw that they also lowered their heads and shrugged their shoulders.
"Senior...Senior, I only have the cultivation level of the peak of the late Sanxian...How can I possibly kill your young master..." Zhan Yihan said in panic.
Li Xiao didn't believe it either, but he felt a little unwilling.
"Master Li, you may have made a mistake. Zhan Yihan is indeed only at the Loose Immortal stage." Elder Liu said.
"Junior Brother Zhan is undoubtedly a Loose Immortal cultivator. Junior Brother Zhan has only ascended to the Immortal Realm for more than two years."
"Senior! Junior Brother Zhan could never have been the one who killed your son."
"We can all testify." Everyone said at once.
"Senior... please understand..." Zhan Yihan said with a bow.
Li Xiao checked carefully and indeed did not find the spiritual mark on Zhan Yihan that he had left on his son's storage ring. "Let me check your storage ring." He was feeling very angry. He didn't expect that he, the leader of a sect, would be fooled by someone.
Zhan Yihan quickly and respectfully took off his storage ring from his finger, "Senior...Senior, please check..."
Li Xiao glanced at the storage ring, frowning even more. Zhan Yihan's storage ring contained only a few low-level immortal herbs, a low-level immortal weapon, and a disciple jade token. He didn't even have any immortal stones. He was truly pathetic.
He nodded lightly and looked at the other disciples, "You should also let me check your storage ring." Since he had already caught up, he would investigate thoroughly, and then go after the one who deceived him and let him know the consequences of deceiving himself.
Although everyone was unwilling, they had no choice but to obey in the face of absolute strength.
After checking everyone's storage rings, Li Xiao took a step back to his own spaceship. He had no idea why he'd been so foolish as to believe Lu Shu's words. However, the disciples of the Secluded Immortal Palace did gain something this time, but as the leader of a sect, he couldn't openly steal anything, no matter how tempted.
Looking at the spaceship flying away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't know what Sect Master Li is thinking. Why would he suspect Junior Brother Zhan?"
"Even if it's possible for others, it can't be Junior Brother Zhan."
"Even if a late-stage Golden Immortal cultivator doesn't fight back, it's impossible for him to be destroyed by a late-stage peak-level Loose Cultivator."
Zhan Yihan walked up to Su Jinyue, smiled at her, reached out and held her hand, and walked towards their room. Their current cultivation level was the best disguise.
After returning to the Secluded Immortal Palace, everyone came to the mission hall under the leadership of Elder Liu.
"Everyone, please give one-third of the resources you've obtained this time to the sect in exchange for points. You can choose to exchange the remaining resources for points or keep them for yourself," Elder Liu said to the group. This was the sect's long-standing rule: whether a disciple was sent out for training or took on a mission on their own, they must hand over a portion of the resources they obtained to the sect.
"Yes!" everyone responded.
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan exchanged a glance, then gave a helpless smile. Of course, they couldn't possibly hand over a third of their resources to the sect. Otherwise, even if they were Sanxian-level cultivators, they would still be suspected by the sect.
After the disciples had handed over their resources, Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan stepped forward and presented a total of 137 immortal herbs, two-thirds of which were low-grade, with the remainder being grade six and above, along with a few pieces of ore for refining. While this was a significant difference from the one-third they had received, it was definitely no less than what the other disciples had received. After all, their current cultivation level forced them to keep a low profile.
Elder Liu and the deacon who was handling the exchange of points were somewhat surprised to see Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan bring out so many immortal herbs. They thought that with Zhan Yihan and Su Jinyue's cultivation level, they were lucky to return alive, but they didn't expect that the resources they received were no less than those of other disciples.
"Good! Keep up the good work," Elder Liu praised with a smile. Whether this was all of Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan's resources, or just a third, the fact that they could contribute so much showed how much they valued the sect.
Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan smiled awkwardly, "We will."
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