Meng Chao truly did not want to believe these testimonies were real.
But there was far more than one such testimony.
As the interrogations continued, more testimonies kept piling up, and accounts from different Blood Alliance members could corroborate one another.
Besides, many of the violations and crimes mentioned in the testimonies were very easy to verify.
It seemed that although these testimonies contained no shortage of wild accusations, exaggerations, and vicious slander, once the water had been wrung out, their truthfulness still exceeded fifty percent.
For a time, Meng Chao was bitterly disappointed in the entire Transcendent circle.
"Actually, there's nothing strange about it. It's only Human Nature."
Having grown up in a Cultivation Family and witnessed all manner of murky unspoken rules within the Transcendent circle since childhood, Lü Siya said lightly, "You can't judge what happened decades ago through the eyes of today.
"Decades ago, when these combat heroes had only just made their mistakes, it was a Crimson Era when order had collapsed, the strong preyed on the weak, and lawlessness reigned.
"Back then, half a can of rotten, moldy Beef Canned Goods could cost three or five lives.
"If someone could awaken Superhuman Power in that incomparably cruel age, even if they had only reached the One-Star Spirit Vein Realm—
"To the people around him, he was hope, a savior, a god.
"When someone of the opposite sex with no ability to protect themselves encountered such 'hope, savior, god,' wasn't it perfectly normal and reasonable for them to use their body as a bargaining chip in exchange for his temporary protection and resources to survive a few more days?
"And for newly awakened Transcendents, the lack of cultivation theory, the backwardness of cultivation facilities, and the possibility of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome during fierce battles