"Gang Leader, what you just said was far too roundabout. You said I wasn't of your Path, yet I was still your disciple. I really couldn't make heads or tails of that.
"I created the Electric Cultivator Path myself. My disciples are all Electric Cultivators. What new trick could possibly come out of that?"
Yuan Miaoping looked at Li Banfeng with an innocent expression, as though his reasoning contained a glaring logical flaw.
Li Banfeng felt there was no flaw. "Are all your disciples Electric Cultivators? Don't you have any Disease Cultivators?"
Yuan Miaoping denied it repeatedly. "Where would I get a Disease Cultivator disciple? I'm from the Outer State. Before coming to Pro State, I didn't even know what a Disease Cultivator was. I'd never even heard of Green Flower, the patriarch of Disease Cultivators!"
Jiuer caught some of the implications and hurriedly built Li Banfeng a slope from the side. "Miss Yuan is right. People who have never been to Pro State have scarcely heard Green Flower's name. Since someone has heard Green Flower's name, they probably haven't come to Pro State for the first time."
"Yes, this isn't my first time—" Yuan Miaoping stopped herself and turned to Jiuer. "Sister Jiuer, whenever General Hong bullied you, hadn't I helped you plenty? For you to frame me at a time like this hardly seems appropriate, does it?"
Jiuer looked reproachful. "Miss Yuan, I'm speaking in your favor. When you created the Electric Cultivator Path, if it had been your first time in Pro State, you definitely wouldn't have known Green Flower."
"I really don't know him!" Yuan Miaoping flicked her bangs. "Even after I heard his name later, I never met him. What I pursue is the art and individuality of a new era. I never had any