Lu Yang thought, Does it make any difference which of us goes to jail? If you take my place, Immortal Fairy, I'll still be in the mental space. You say you'll be locked up, but that doesn't mean I won't be in the Hall of Sinners.
The Undying Fairy's conviction that whoever did the deed should bear the consequences was admirable.
Even if it wasn't much use.
It was still admirable, though.
"Do I have to be locked up too?" Bai Ye replaced True Person Zhuiyue.
"Once night falls, Ancestor Tree, you can come out," Luo Hongxia said. Bai Ye hadn't done anything, so how could she be sent to jail?
"Oh, all right." Bai Ye withdrew, handing control of the body back to True Person Zhuiyue.
"Ancestor Tree, please don't go. There's one more matter for which we need your consent," Luo Hongxia called after her.
"What is it?"
"Before, we didn't know you were sentient. The Immortal Palace has been felling and selling moon laurels without asking your permission. We feel deeply ashamed. These moon laurels belong to you, so the spirit stones earned from selling them should be yours. Please tell us when you became sentient, so the Immortal Palace can calculate how many spirit stones to return."
Bai Ye struggled to understand what Luo Hongxia meant, but she got the gist: she wanted to give her spirit stones.
"Spirit stones aren't much use to me. Keep them for yourselves. As for felling and selling trees, just keep doing it as usual."
"Ancestor Tree, your benevolence knows no bounds." Luo Hongxia bowed.
The moment the ancestor of the moon laurels became sentient and turned into a "person," ownership of the moon laurels on Great Snow Mountain had passed from the Immortal Palace to Bai Ye. But at