Jiu Qing spoke casually, but Yi Jue understood his feelings all too well.
She nodded involuntarily. "True. If the greatest injustice cannot be cleared up, there is really no point in arguing about anything else."
"Exactly." Jiu Qing increasingly appreciated Yi Jue. "Only a defector can understand another defector's mindset... I do not mind others misunderstanding me, but trying to frame me to absolve themselves of responsibility? That I absolutely cannot tolerate."
Qing Yao, however, asked coldly, "So, Senior really did kill Senior Dian He of my Mysterious Water Sect?"
"A True Lord from the Mysterious Water Sect?" Ancestral Patriarch Jiu Qing seemed to consider it before replying, "I do not remember. But at most, I should have only injured one of the Mysterious Water Sect's True Lords. If he later died of grave injuries... then put it on my account. I do not care."
With that attitude, he truly seemed to have seen through everything. He would not fear having a few more accusations pinned on him.
"He died on the spot," True Venerable Qing Yao said gravely. "It was during the final battle to surround and annihilate you."
"Then I truly do not remember." Ancestral Patriarch Jiu Qing remained indifferent as he said disdainfully, "So many nameless dogs came running over, hoping to pick up a huge advantage. I was fighting with all my strength then. How could I remember so many?"
He spoke without the slightest courtesy, but that final battle to surround and annihilate him had indeed been extremely perilous. Three Ancestral Patriarchs, six True Lords, and more than a dozen True Venerables had calculated his whereabouts well in advance before suddenly launching their attack...
To say that he remembered none of them would have been nonsense. Some time after escaping, he had even gone out