For a moment, Lin Xuan actually found himself unable to argue even if he had a hundred mouths.
"Utter nonsense!"
Fairy Ruyan was so furious her whole body trembled. She had seen shameless cultivators before, but never anyone shameless to such a degree—lying to someone's face without even blushing.
"You are simply spouting nonsense. When did my little brother ever slander the Yulan Trade Alliance?"
"Hmph, you demoness. That Lin Kid only made an enemy of my Yulan Trade Alliance to help you. The two of you are jackals from the same lair, so of course you would cover for him."
The Long-Browed Elder spoke viciously. This fellow's ability to turn black into white was truly no ordinary thing.
Never had anyone seen someone so narrow-minded. Merely because he had been defeated by Lin Xuan, he nursed a grudge against him, and even at the cost of spouting lies, he wanted to put Lin Xuan to death.
Base and shameless was the only way to describe him.
Yet his words happened to be very convincing.
First, although there was something wrong with the Long-Browed Elder's character, he was, after all, at the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage. Clearly, losing control like this was also a first for him, so even with Diji Sanren's cleverness and wit, he absolutely could not have imagined that the man was spouting nonsense.
That was one reason.
Second, he was also one of the elders of the Yulan Trade Alliance. Whether by sentiment or reason, Diji Sanren would believe one of his own people, not Lin Xuan's defense.
In fact, Lin Xuan had not said anything in defense at all.
It was not because he pedantically believed that the clear would prove itself clear and the muddy would prove itself muddy, but because Lin Xuan knew