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Lu Xu was exceedingly greedy, and her expression was vicious as well. Her tone now clearly meant to haul me before the tribunal, which meant torture was not out of the question. And the glance she cast at Huaxia Yue was obviously asking for a bribe.
Huaxia Yue naturally understood this and immediately said, "Senior Sister Lu, we need to investigate this matter thoroughly. The two of them are only at the third rank, and it was already fortunate that nothing happened to them on this trip. Why send them to the Discipline Hall? They haven't done anything wrong—what are they supposed to go there for?"
Qingcheng Ruoxue also nodded aggrievedly, then took out her communicator, looking as though she intended to contact Sect Master Lü Qiu. Lu Xu frowned and asked, "Nephew Qingcheng, what are you planning to do?"
"I should at least inform my master," Qingcheng Ruoxue said. Lu Xu's expression turned rather ugly. "You joined them later, didn't you? Then it has nothing to do with you. You don't need to go to the Discipline Hall anymore. But this boy is different from you. The disciples said he was the first to set out on patrol with Senior Brother Luo Qingjun and two disciples of the same rank. Something happened after only a few days. I wouldn't believe it if you said you had nothing to do with him!"
"Elder Lu, don't speak so absolutely! When immortals venture outside, life and death are governed by fate. My disciple happened to escape disaster—shouldn't that be possible?" Huaxia Yue was getting angry too, and even her form of address changed.
"Oh? So by your reckoning, Senior Brother Luo had poor fortune?" Lu Xu began arguing sophistically. Beside her, Yu Se waved her sleeve and said, "Nephew Qingcheng probably