"If it weren't for you, how would we have ended up like this? Who exactly are you!" Ling Xian asked through clenched teeth.
"Of course I'm an immortal friend here to lead you out of your sea of misery. Do you know that if it weren't for me, you would've nearly been sold off for money by Lingshan Academy!" I said with a laugh.
"What did you say? Sold off for money?!" Ling Xian asked with a frown.
Even Xing Yao looked astonished. "Do you know something? Can you explain it in detail?"
I looked at them and said, "That Lingshan Academy is a group of spies sent by the other immortal cities outside. Normally, they don't do much beyond making friends everywhere. But now that the Immortal Tide has erupted and the Five Great Immortal Regions have joined forces to plunder all the immortal cities, they've become accomplices to those other cities. And that includes you. If I had arrived a step later, you two might have ended up helping evil do its work!"
"What do you mean? They haven't done anything at all. How dare you slander good people? It was clearly Seeking Dao Immortal City that ordered us to let people in but not out!" Ling Xian said anxiously.
"Exactly. We were only helping everyone escape Seeking Dao Immortal City. We weren't doing anything else evil!" Xing Yao added.
"Once you're trapped in it, who will care whether you've done evil or not? Besides, didn't an immortal cultivator die at your hands before?" I asked.
The two exchanged glances. Then Xing Yao said, "We didn't kill him. He was following us. It was the master of Lingshan Academy who struck."
"So that's how it was. No wonder you were willing to help her stir up the storm