"Save face? Which of the old comrades and brothers standing here still has any face left? The moment this brat returned to Heavenly Realm Sect, he immediately seized their authority. Then, anyone he found displeasing or unsuitable, he sent straight to me. He even reshuffled every single vice sect master! He's trying to rebel!" Li Tianjing roared.
"Exactly! I loyally served the sect master, but this brat came along and drove all of us, the entire Lian family, here in one go—even the old and the young!" The former Northern Grand Elder, Lian, hurriedly piled on.
"Any old comrades who showed the slightest disobedience were wiped out by this brat's men. When have we ever suffered such torment?" A man who looked like a victim also stepped forward to accuse me.
"Even Vice Sect Master Shangguan Zhao was killed by some Heavenly Dao-realm immortal he somehow invited! What wouldn't he dare do!? Why should the sect master waste words on him? Seize him and punish him—that's the proper course!" Another of Shangguan Zhao's former subordinates hurriedly pointed at me. Behind him stood a whole crowd of supporters. Clearly, these were all people who had been too afraid to make a peep in front of me before. Now that they had Li Tianjing backing them, they had come here to settle old scores.
"Oh? This actually happened? Yun Mu, did you really wipe out those fellow disciples who refused to obey? You even killed Fellow Daoist Shangguan Zhao?" Xuan Xichen's expression changed dramatically. Of course he knew Shangguan Zhao—he had been the vice sect master of Heavenly Realm Sect, after all!
"Yun Mu! What do you have to say for yourself?!" Li Tianjing ground out furiously.
He didn't dare seize me now because my influence here was considerable. Aside from having