"What are you doing? You're so old, why are you still making a scene!" Xie Zhou stepped out from the side and looked coldly at the people around him.
In an instant, everyone fell silent. No one knew why they had to be so obedient, but they were too pressured to speak.
The people from the Sword Sect spoke up again to explain, "Senior Sister, here's what happened. We were eating here peacefully, but they poisoned our food. Luckily, the brothers discovered it in time, otherwise we would all be lying here lying in disarray."
"Exactly, exactly. When the female disciples can't win, they resort to these underhanded tricks. They're really vicious."
Immediately, intermittent curses rang out from below. The female disciple, seeing that her master was in trouble and all the blame was being directed at her, was also very unwilling and immediately retorted.
"You say we drugged you in your hair salon? That's utter nonsense. We've only been here a short time, and you've been here for much longer. How can you be so sure that we were the ones who put the drug in?" The female disciple stood with her hands in front of her chest, her eyes filled with ferocity.
"I think it's just that your Sword Sect can't take a joke, so you're slandering us and trying to make us lose face in the martial world." The female disciple was about to cry as she spoke, her eyes turning red.
Seeing that things were going badly, the Sword Sect member became even angrier. "All you do is cry, cry, cry! All you female disciples can do is cry. Is it that our Sword Sect can't take a beating? What can't our Sword Sect take a beating? We have Senior Sister Xie Zhou here, why would we be afraid of you?"
"You only have Xie Zhou to rely on. Can you guarantee that besides her, who else can beat us?" The female disciple stomped her foot angrily on the ground. She didn't expect that their tricks would be discovered by the other side and that they would be able to refute them.
If this gets out, they will lose all standing, not only in the sect but also in the martial arts world. So they absolutely cannot admit it now.
"Enough! What kind of behavior is this, making such a racket? Where is the drug that was put on you?" Xie Zhou frowned and looked directly at the food on the table.
He stepped forward, took out a silver needle, picked up a grain of rice, and sniffed it, discovering that there was indeed something strange about it.
But based on this alone, we still can't determine who's behind it.
She casually picked up the rice bowl from the table, walked over, and laid the rice out in front of everyone. "When did the rice get poisoned?"
"It was probably cooked before we arrived. The rice was already warm when it was served, not piping hot from the pot." Luo Fentian stepped forward, picked up a grain of rice, crushed it, and found that it was indeed covered with a lot of medicinal powder.
The fact that the medicine was prepared so carelessly suggests that this isn't something they do often.
Therefore, it is highly likely that someone bribed the shop owner to do this. Since they have made it so clear, it is natural to know who the suspect is.
Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Luo Fentian quietly went to the kitchen, took the prepared items, and handed them to the waiter.
"Don't play dumb with me. Of course I know what you did, which is why I came to ask. I'll give you two choices: either take the money and go out to identify who did it, or I'll drag you out and force you to confess. I'm sure you know the reputation of the Sword Sect, so you naturally won't allow such a thing to happen to your own disciple."
The waiter shook his head helplessly and had no choice but to accept the silver from Luo Fentian. After all, being able to recover some of the losses was a consolation.
But as soon as the two of them stepped outside, they heard a scream.
Unexpectedly, Xie Zhou couldn't stand the repeated slander and went up to fight with the person.
"Stop it, all of you!" The old sect leader slowly walked in from outside the door, but he did not expect to see such a scene, and he was very unhappy.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the one who led the beating was Xie Zhou, his own good disciple.
He immediately knew the answer in his heart: this guy was definitely not the kind of person who would cause trouble before, so his willingness to take action now must mean something was wrong.
"What exactly happened that allowed you to make such a big move in public?" The old sect leader slowly walked in, bent down, and sat down, his face full of indifference.
The Sword Sect disciple, unable to bear the humiliation any longer, pointed at the female disciple who had started the trouble and said, "They drugged our food before we arrived, and when we questioned them, they denied it."
Upon hearing this, the old sect leader instantly flew into a rage. He never expected that this person in front of him would have such great abilities. To poison someone right under the nose of the Sword Sect, he really had a death wish.
"You're talking nonsense! You have no evidence to prove that we drugged you. Instead, your senior sister suddenly rushed up and beat us up." The female disciple who was beaten the most hid to the side and started crying. She wasn't the one who rushed up, but she was the only one who got hit.
"You're talking nonsense! Our senior sister was clearly right there the whole time. How could she possibly rush up and punch and kick you?" A disciple of the Sword Sect couldn't stand seeing them slander Xie Zhou like this.
He tried to speak up to stop them, but his strength was too weak to withstand so many voices.
"If it wasn't your senior sister who hit her, does that mean our junior sister's injury healed on its own? Or are you Sword Sect disciples just pretending and not daring to admit it!"
Both teams had assembled, and amidst the cacophony of insults, neither side could gain the upper hand.
The old sect leader frowned, unable to bear it any longer. "Shut up, all of you! With so many mouths, I can't hear you clearly. Find someone to speak."
Sword Sect immediately rushed forward and recounted the entire incident. "Sect Master, this is what happened. These female disciples put some drugs in our food before we arrived, just so they could beat us later. They've resorted to such despicable means. We didn't intend to pursue the matter, but they're insisting on smearing us."
"It's because my senior sister was busy breaking up the fight; she didn't have time to punch and kick a female disciple."
The old sect leader couldn't help but feel conflicted. The female disciples were ultimately the weaker party, so he couldn't say too much. He could only change the subject and ask his own people to restrain themselves.
"Fen Tian, what do you think of this matter?" The old sect master's face was full of helplessness.
"I don't think my junior sister is the type to be so unreasonable."
"Forget it, whatever the cause of this matter, let's put it behind us. You should also take that female disciple to get a medical check-up as soon as possible. Xie Zhou, as the one who started this whole thing, should have his martial arts suspended."
This resulted in them being unable to win in the subsequent matches.
The sect leader was furious and directly challenged the elder of the opposing sect to a duel.
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