Vice Island Master Tian Tian's deduction was backed by solid reasoning!
This "missing person" was A-Qi's junior, so she couldn't have been very old. That was why A-Qi could dote on her like a little sister.
Then there was her extraordinary talent for cultivation. A-Qi called her an "absolute genius," and she had already reached the fourth-grade realm at such a young age. Naturally, the fourth-grade and fifth-grade Spirit Emperor realm fellow Daoists in the group would feel pressured. To preserve their dignity as "seniors," they would have to work hard at cultivating. They would train day and night, leveling up without even taking holidays off.
Finally, there was the most important point. She had probably developed feelings for Senior Three Waves, or perhaps Senior Three Waves had a secret crush on her. That satisfied every condition the seniors in the Nine Provinces Number One Group had speculated about.
Vice Island Master Tian Tian's deduction was so convincing it was suffocating.
"Wait, there has to be some misunderstanding here. I don't have a little-sister complex. I prefer the older-sister type," Mad Saber Three Waves hurriedly explained.
He could sense that Su Clan's Seven was about to explode outside his door—and then Three Waves felt that what he had said earlier was absolutely right. Someone with a little-sister complex could be terrifying when he lost his temper.
"There's no contradiction, Senior Three Waves. Who says Senior A-Qi's junior can't be an 'older sister'? We're cultivators, not ordinary people. Even if she's Senior A-Qi's junior, she's already in the fourth-grade realm. Judging purely by appearance, she could very well be a mature older-sister type," Vice Island Master Tian Tian added.
"Fairy Tiantian, please have mercy!" Three Waves wailed in a voice message.
Mixed into the recording were the sounds of a door