It had to be admitted that the prosperity of every family was no accident.
There might be spoiled heirs and the like, but there would also inevitably be a group of elites supporting the family's development.
Xie Chaosheng was cautious, but he was not afraid of death. When pushed to the limit, he could truly throw caution to the wind.
Zhu Gaoyang actually understood the trickiness of this matter. He also knew that blindly denying everything might anger Feng Jun, so he repeated what had happened after Xie Chaosheng had been Life-Caged. At this point, he did not dare distort the facts in the slightest.
"Ran straight into a wall?" Xie Chaosheng laughed. "Then they deserved it."
Then he looked at Feng Jun and spoke with a bitter smile. "Feng Mountain Lord, the demand to search you truly came from the Yin Sha Sect, while the large-scale arrests were the Zhu Family's decision... I am not shirking responsibility. I can die, but can you spare the Xie Family of Swordforging Peak?"
"You think dying settles everything?" Hearing the two of them pass the buck, Feng Jun grew impatient again. "Do you know that your nonsense delayed my pursuit of Han Po?"
Delayed his pursuit of True Immortal Han Po? At first, Xie Chaosheng could not accept that claim. Han Po was a high-ranking True Immortal of Yinsha.
But after considering the information he had received earlier, he understood. "You were actually guarding against Yinsha setting a trap for you, and our actions... caused you to misjudge the situation?"
This really was a perceptive man! Feng Jun could not help giving him another mental nod of approval. There were plenty of people who knew their limits, but few who could get straight to the point. Nor was he afraid to admit