Not long after Yunxi and Yuling returned to the Guest Peak where the Western Regions were temporarily staying, Xian Yao arrived with Huaxian Sect disciples to deliver compensation to the various Western Regions sects.
Xian Yao separately handed Yunxi a Spiritual Vein sealed within a jade box. Yunxi accepted it without ceremony—it was rightfully hers. Compared to her Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact, a top-grade Spiritual Vein was truly nothing much.
Xian Yao looked at Yunxi as if she wanted to speak but hesitated. Yunxi got straight to the point and asked:
"Fellow Daoist Xianyao, is there something else you wish to say?"
Xian Yao nodded and said:
"Fellow Daoist Ranxi, Martial Uncle Huabai did indeed do something wrong, but it was not his original intention."
Yet Yunxi shook her head and said:
"I do not know whether it was his original intention. I only know that because of him, the Five Regions lost over a hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators. Huaxian Sect's losses this time should not have been small either. Xian Xu perished before your very eyes. If you can let it go, then that is your magnanimity.
"I admit that I can be narrow-minded. Back in the Baohua Mountain Range, his junior first tried to seize my Exotic Flame, then suffered a Heavenly Flame backlash. To avoid bringing trouble to Haoran Sect, I had the Fire Spirit display the entire course of events before him. His junior, Yiran, had already been replaced by a wisp of divided soul hidden within the Exotic Flame, yet he still harbored resentment.
"Now that things have come to this, there is no point in pursuing who was right and who was wrong. After all, our positions differ. But dragging all the cultivators of the Five Regions into this just to retaliate against me—that