Lu Yin looked at him. "The Four Sides Heavenly Balance was in the wrong, and the Heaven's Sect will hold them accountable. But you helped me. At the tea gathering, you helped expose the Four Sides Heavenly Balance's scheme to frame me, and you let Bai Wangyuan and the others lower their guard. You have committed wrongs, but you have also done good. Since you truly regret your actions and have already knelt to repent, I'll pardon you and let your merits outweigh your faults. From now on, I hope you'll fight for humanity and swear to oppose the Eternal Clan to the death."
Xia Shenji breathed a sigh of relief. It had worked. "Thank you for your forgiveness, Dao Master. I will fight for humanity."
"Rise and come forward."
Xia Shenji stood and looked toward the Heavenly Ladder. Amid the many contemptuous, disdainful stares, he climbed it one step at a time.
Even Kui Luo looked down on him. So what? In a few years, all those gazes would change.
He knew his place and stood at the very end of the row of Progenitors. Lu Yin had deliberately had them come out after Xing Jun and Chen Le for this very reason.
After all, they were members of the Four Sides Heavenly Balance. Chen Le and the others had been neither friends nor foes of the Heaven's Sect, but these people had once been its enemies. They could only stand at the back.
"Where is Bai Sheng?"
In the starry sky, Bai Sheng stepped forward. He looked at Xia Shenji on the Heavenly Ladder. Honestly, he hadn't expected that scene to unfold.
Xia Shenji had actually done something like that, putting him in an awkward position.
Bai Sheng came to the foot of the Heavenly Ladder and slowly