After Zhang Xiangyun said this, an eerie silence fell over the room.
Yu Sui, watching their confrontation from inside the carriage, was startled for a moment too. Her gaze settled on Nian Qiuyan in the room.
Nian Qiuyan, however, seemed completely unaffected. He maintained his usual gentle, polite demeanor, and there was no way to read his feelings in his dark eyes as he looked at Zhang Xiangyun. Nor did he seem inclined to meet Zhang Xiangyun's demands.
The Legalists had initially sought to pass judgment on Gu Gan because the Forbidden Item "Milky Way Water" had gone missing from Hanging Moon Cave.
As a poison-making prohibited item that could not be destroyed, Milky Way Water had been kept under guard by the Legalists in the forbidden grounds of Hanging Moon Cave. Although the Ghost Dao School could not destroy it completely in one go, they could speed up its destruction.
So Gu Gan's intrusion into Hanging Moon Cave should never have caused such a commotion. At most, he would have been confined for a few days and had some points deducted.
It was all because Milky Way Water had disappeared, and Gu Gan had happened to be caught inside Hanging Moon Cave. That was what caused such a stir. Although the Di Xiang Tiancheng Yu Sui had brought had cleared him of suspicion, the academy still hadn't recovered the missing Milky Way Water.
The Legalists had never stopped thinking about it.
Yu Sui had been focused on Futuo Tower earlier and hadn't looked into anything related to Milky Way Water. Now that she heard Zhang Xiangyun's words, it seemed that aside from Gu Gan and the others, the person who had entered Hanging Moon Cave and taken the water that night was Nian Qiuyan.
If it had been Nian