Overbearing Response

After hearing Ning Ye's account, the Purple Zenith Sacred Sovereign said angrily, "So today's events were ultimately connected to you after all? It was because of your selfish desires that the Devil Race invaded!"

Ning Ye smiled and asked, "Sacred Sovereign, are you certain it was for my own selfish desires?"

"How dare you!" The Purple Zenith Sacred Sovereign bellowed like thunder, and the gleam of tribulation lightning had already appeared in the sky.

The Langya Sacred Sovereign said, "Purple Zenith, enough. Do not bicker with a child. There was nothing improper in what Ning Ye did. He did not collude with the Devil Race!"

"But he knew what his actions would bring about!" Purple Zenith roared.

Ning Ye shook his head. "I did not know. All I knew was that the Devil Race would certainly invade—but they had always been invading. Who could have expected the Evil Rakshasa Devil Ancestor to suddenly emerge?"

"But that does not negate your fault!"

"What fault? The fault of guarding the rift for eight years without a single mishap? One fulfills the duties of one's post. While I, Ning Ye, was on Nightglow Island, I gave my all to ensure that nothing happened there. After I left, even if this place were turned upside down, so long as I did not collude to bring it about, what did it have to do with me? Could it be that a general who had guarded a city meritoriously and was transferred away without fault would be blamed when the city later fell—not the man who took over, but the old general? If Silver Arhat had not been greedy and set up the Bitter Grove Pure Land formation, none of this would have happened in the first place. Sacred Sovereigns, please judge fairly: what wrong did