Styx listened to Jieyin and Zhunti's account with an indifferent expression, without feeling the slightest sympathy for what they had gone through.
As the saying went, disasters brought by Heaven could be survived, but disasters brought upon oneself could not be forgiven. Wasn't everything they had encountered in the Great Wilderness now something they had brought upon themselves?
They treated everyone else like fools, believing themselves to be the only clever ones. They could never get enough of taking advantage of others, yet they refused to suffer even the slightest loss themselves.
Saints and Heavenly Venerates were not actually fools. After the Hong Yun incident, wasn't it only natural that they would be ostracized?
However, they still had some value at present, so there was no need to rush to make them fall. Still, a little warning was necessary.
"Oh~ You two feel quite aggrieved, don't you? Are you also blaming me for saving Hong Yun and making you watch helplessly as he grew stronger step by step?"
At those words, Jieyin and Zhunti began trembling even more violently, repeatedly crying out that they would never dare.
Styx found it amusing. "Oh~ So you don't dare, rather than wouldn't?"
The two were startled and hurriedly waved their hands. Zhunti hastily explained, "Dao Venerate, please see the truth. When you had the Blood Sea's disciples repair the West back then, it was practically a life-saving grace to us. How could we possibly blame you?"
Jieyin also admitted his mistake readily. "Our thinking was too narrow-minded. We handled Fellow Daoist Hong Yun's matter in an utterly ungrateful manner."
Styx chuckled softly. Indeed, saints were still saints, but since they possessed the character for "human," they naturally had their own Seven Emotions and Six Desires.
Who could have imagined that the two lofty