"But Father, from beginning to end, I only wanted to play a joke on him."
"I never meant to take his life, but he..."
At this point, Pan Zhiting's emotions, which had gradually settled, flared up again.
"But even after Junior Brother Cheng Yu stepped forward, offered to spar, and finally revealed his true identity, he still struck to kill a Personal Disciple of the Heavenly Moon Sect's Inner Sect!"
"Father, in all my years of cultivation, I've never seen anyone as ruthless as him, someone whose every move was meant to take a life."
"How is Sect Master Luo, with such a murderous heart, any different from the Primordial True Demon that brought calamity upon the world?"
"Once word spreads that he tried to kill a Personal Disciple of the Heavenly Moon Sect's Inner Sect, how could the disciples of the other sects among the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea accept it?"
"Fool."
Watching his daughter weep before him, tears falling like rain on pear blossoms, Pan Zhengxiong fought back the urge to slap the fool to death.
Instead, he turned his gaze to Cheng Yu, the short, stout young man barely clinging to life in his hand.
"Yu'er, after suffering such severe injuries, do you, like that fool of a senior sister of yours, want your master to personally cripple that young man to avenge you?"
"I... I..."
Hearing his master's calm question, Cheng Yu felt a chill in his heart.
Only after a long silence did he manage to force out a few words.
"Master, Senior Sister Pan is not to blame for this, and neither is the young Sect Master Luo."
"I brought it all upon myself. Please punish me, Master."
"Oh, is that so?"
Seeing that his disciple bore no resentment despite his grave