Chapter 402: The League Leader’s Accusation

In the eyes of the nine sect masters, the League of Independent Cultivators was a small organization. They could associate with it, win it over, and show its people some respect and courtesy, but standing as equals with the nine sect masters was impossible.

Wasn’t it obvious? After all these years, aside from the jade throne added for Xiao Shou this year, were there not still only those same nine seats on the Nine Dragons Platform?

League Leader Li also knew his own position. After stopping Tang Qicen and flying over, he immediately gave him a half-bow and said with an ingratiating smile, "Sect Master Tang, please forgive me. There is simply something I must ask Venerable Xiao Ran of your sect to clarify."

"Oh! So that’s what it is." Xiao Ran again. Just how much trouble had this the one chosen by the heaven caused the Heavenly Void Sect? Tang Qicen was extremely irritated inwardly, but on the surface he put on a kindly expression and said, "Go ahead and ask. Xiao Ran, make sure you answer League Leader Li’s questions properly."

Just as she expected, Xiao Ran felt that she might completely lose face throughout the entire Heaven Origin Realm today. The moment she thought about what had happened in the Crimson Dusk City being spread throughout the Heaven Origin Grand Competition until everyone knew about it, she felt an urge to immediately kill the person standing before her. However, with the vicious restriction Tushan Shanhe had placed on her, she could only endure it. "Yes! This disciple obeys."

"Thank you, Sect Master Tang, for your understanding." After thanking Tang Qicen, League Leader Li stared closely at Xiao Shou and said, "Venerable Xiao Ran, everyone in the League of Independent Cultivators of Crimson Dusk City is extremely grateful that you resolved the disaster of the Seven Deadly Sins. We would never dare forget this kindness. However, as far as I know, both the former League Leader and his son were extremely close to you. My only daughter became extremely jealous because of this and once accompanied Venerable Fei Hongxue out of the city to pursue you. Yet after that, there was no further trace of my daughter, nor of the former League Leader Yu Long and his son, Venerable Fei Hongxue, or his subordinates. Do you know where they are?"

"Really?"

"The former League Leader and his son of the League of Independent Cultivators actually had an intimate relationship with Venerable Xiao Ran?"

"But Venerable Xiao Ran looks so cold. He doesn’t seem like that kind of promiscuous person!"

"That’s called knowing someone’s face but not their heart."

"Didn’t League Leader Li already say that his only daughter is the former League Leader’s only son’s dao companion? She became extremely jealous and accompanied Venerable Fei Hongxue out of the city to pursue him."

"I remember that Venerable Fei Hongxue is the former League Leader’s first wife!"

"In other words..."

League Leader Li’s words caused everyone present to start discussing among themselves. They looked at Xiao Ran with prejudice and speculated about whether what League Leader Li had said was true.

Venerable Jian Li who was also one of the participants gave a self mocking bitter smile upon hearing this. As expected, he had imagined her to be far too perfect. She had already not been completely pure before she and Jian Li became involved. Later, when she became entangled with that demonic cultivator, Jian Li had believed that she had been forced into it. Then... what was going on with this father and son now? Perhaps there were still other people he knew nothing about.

Thinking about this made him feel somewhat disgusted. But then he remembered the way Xiao Ran had deliberately distanced herself from him before. He thought to himself that they were already unrelated now, so why should he care about her affairs? With that thought, he turned around and used spatial movement to leave immediately. His movements were too fast, and he failed to see Xiao Ran’s pleading gaze turn toward him in the next moment before her gaze shifted away in disappointment.

The gazes around Xiao Ran were even more cruel than the restrictions in her meridians, as though they were constantly torturing her. She looked left and right, but could not find anyone who could help her escape this situation. Seeing how foolish she looked, Ting Lu gritted his teeth in anger. "Is your brain made of pigs? It’s such a trivial matter, yet you actually want to rely on someone else to solve it for you."

"I am stupid! I can’t think of what to say. Then tell me what I should do." Xiao Ran also cried out helplessly in her heart. Ting Lu sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Tell half the truth and half a lie. Say it in whatever way makes you sound the most wronged. Don’t forget that everyone believes you were the one who resolved the Seven Deadly Sins incident, and they still owe you a huge favor!"

"Half the truth and half a lie?" Xiao Ran was not the scheming and intelligent type like Yu Lin. If she were clever enough, how could she have failed to notice Chi Jia’s abnormalities and Yu Lin’s falseness? Now that she had received Ting Lu’s guidance, she was still at a loss, making Ting Lu almost frantic. Unable to endure his impatience any longer, he simply said, "Watch me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ting Lu’s divine sense moved, and he took control of Xiao Ran’s body. Xiao Ran was horrified to sense her body suddenly reveal an expression of grievance and helplessness, as though she had been wronged and abandoned. She quietly bit her lip and looked at League Leader Li, "After I resolved the Seven Deadly Sins incident that day, League Leader Yu Long and his son did indeed express their affection toward me one after another."

"But I clearly rejected them. League Leader Yu Long then placed me under house arrest in one of his private residences and... did many excessive things to me. Later, I found an opportunity to escape. In order to get away completely, I entered Wailing Ghost Valley, the forbidden area of Crimson Dusk City. I even fought fiercely with Xiao Shou’s disciple, Fu Young, over a treasure. You can verify this with them. As for what happened to the former League Leader’s family, I truly have no idea. With my cultivation, it would have been impossible for me to do anything to them anyway!"