I couldn't be bothered to deal with these masters, but they had no intention of letting me off. One after another, they came over and offered me the same kind of consolation, speaking so gently that I almost felt as though they were my disciples instead of my masters.
"Hehe, so none of you masters are planning to take my sect leader token anymore?" I dangled the token and gave it a shake. The group of masters immediately waved their hands. They wouldn't take it even if I offered it to them now.
"Xia Da, this old man misunderstood you. Rest assured, we completely trust your character! We also believe that Sect Leader Pan gave you the token. But you said the sect leader went to the Meditation Cliff? Do you know what she went there for? Why have we never heard her mention it?" Kong Yu said with a beaming smile, trying to pat me on the shoulder to show that the two of us were on good terms again, but I dodged him.
"What Sect Leader Master wants to do—does she need to report it to you? How come I didn't know that?" I countered.
Kong Yu looked embarrassed. "The sect leader suddenly went to the Meditation Cliff. Aren't we masters allowed to be curious? But if you don't want to say, then we won't ask."
"She went to cultivate a divine art." Since he wasn't going to ask, I naturally did the opposite. Besides, telling them where Pan Shu had gone would help clear me of suspicion, lest they claim later that I had something to do with it.
"Oh? Cultivate a divine art? What divine art?" one of the masters beside him hurriedly asked.
"Master seems to have accidentally comprehended a divine art, so she went