Apology at Their Door

True Person Qingyang's care for Zhou Guangcheng, his inheritor of mantle and teachings, was clearly no less than Zhou Yang's care as a father.

Upon receiving Zhou Yang's message, he hurried personally to Huohua Mountain.

"I have already instructed the sect's cultivators to keep a close watch on news from Divine Fire Palace. At present, they have yet to determine that Cheng'er was the killer."

"However, there were not many cultivators from our sect active in the Savage Jungle at the time, and Cheng'er had publicly shown himself in Hellfire City. I fear this matter cannot be concealed for long. Sooner or later, Divine Fire Palace will discover the truth."

"My opinion is that before Divine Fire Palace makes trouble, we should take the initiative to tell them the full sequence of events, offer a generous gift as compensation to express our apologies, and confine Cheng'er for a hundred years in the name of punishment. What does Fellow Daoist Zhou think?"

The moment he saw Zhou Yang, True Person Qingyang laid out the solution he had hastily devised and asked for his opinion.

Zhou Guangcheng was, after all, a disciple of the Xuan Yang Immortal Sect. Great sects placed the highest value on rules. Leaving aside the fact that Zhou Guangcheng was not entirely in the right, even if he had been, killing a Golden Core Elder from a top-tier sect that bore no grudge against his own sect was still a grave offense. It was impossible for him to go unpunished.

The rules of great sects were usually that punishment could be imposed, but only by themselves. They could not truly hand over a disciple who had committed an error for others to punish. That would not only make other sects laugh themselves to death, but also chill the