"Senior Brother! What did you say?! How could you be connected to Master? Are you looking for a beating?" The female disciple immediately grabbed that junior brother by the collar, her face fierce. Frightened, he hurriedly covered his face with both hands and said in a tearful voice, "Senior Sister, don't hit me! I only let my tongue run away with me for a moment. How could I think it was Master..."
I fell silent in thought for a moment. When I turned my head, I found that Lu Xian'er's face had already twisted into a savage expression. I shook my head. She had taken those words to heart. Whether or not he was Swordlord Chang, he had now become the prime suspect.
"The Lu Family is the largest sword sect in the area besides our Fangcun Sword Dao. They were already widely praised for their profound swordsmanship. Those who couldn't enter our Fangcun Sword Dao would mostly come here to try their luck, so the Lu Family could also be considered the next-level sword sect beneath us. Quite a few of their disciples and members should originally have been our senior and junior brothers and sisters. So I don't find this idea strange..." I offered my assessment fairly and rescued that little junior brother.
Another junior brother followed up, saying, "Senior Brother is right. Until the matter is investigated, everyone is a suspect. Do you still remember the senior brother who delivered the letter to the Lu Family? Let alone the fact that he was strong enough to fight the Lu Family Head, even the three of us working together might not have been able to keep him here. Yet he vanished without a trace—neither living nor dead. Just how powerful do you think the culprit is?"
That junior