Hearing Wang Changnian's desperate pleas, Ning Wangshu couldn't help but freeze. He looked at Kou Wannning in puzzlement.
Chu Ningshuang and the others standing beside Kou Wannning were just as bewildered. They stared at Kou Wannning in surprise. They hadn't noticed that Wang Changnian, an elder of Lingxi Sect, was among the people from Haoyue Sect.
They were even more confused now that Wang Changnian had started begging for mercy.
"Master, Elder Wang... what's going on?"
Chu Ningshuang couldn't hold back and asked.
Kou Wannning's gaze swept over Wang Changnian, and her face immediately turned cold. She took a deep breath and gritted her teeth. "Ningshuang, he's no longer an elder of Lingxi Sect!"
As soon as Kou Wannning finished speaking, an elder of Lingxi Sect beside her also gritted his teeth and said coldly, "That's right. Wang Changnian, that Dog Thief, didn't just betray Lingxi Sect. Before you returned, he even attacked the sect leader from behind and tampered with the Sect Protecting Formation, causing it to collapse."
"Someone like him is no longer fit to be an elder of Lingxi Sect!"
"This..."
Chu Ningshuang and the others were stunned. They opened their mouths, unsure what to say.
They had never imagined that Wang Changnian, an elder of their sect, would betray it, attack Kou Wannning, and destroy the Sect Protecting Formation!
After standing there in a daze for a while, Chu Ningshuang and the others exchanged glances, then fell silent again.
After a long pause, Chu Ningshuang finally spoke. "I see. No wonder... no wonder the Sect Protecting Formation wasn't activated. I thought it had already been breached, which was why you and the others were fighting them, Master."
"I never thought... I never thought Wang... Wang Changnian had destroyed the Sect Protecting Formation!"
Chu Ningshuang let out