As soon as Jiang Wang made the accusation, everyone was stunned.
The one who had questioned Hai Jingping for leading Zhu Biqiong into committing a grave crime was now accusing someone else of leading Zhu Biqiong?
"You've lost your mind! What nonsense are you spouting?" Granny Bizhu looked furious. "I have no sons or daughters of my own. I've always treated Su Yao and Bi Qiong as my own. Who on Huai Island doesn't know that? I raised the sisters with my own hands. No matter how busy I was, I always made time to teach them Daoist Arts myself. Why would I harm them?"
"Yao'er met with misfortune and was lost in the Heavenly Mansion Secret Realm. I have only Qiong'er left!"
She laughed bitterly, pointing first at Jiang Wang, then at Hai Jingping. "But you—you people!"
Her expression twisted with rage. "You people can't stand to see the kind-hearted, can't stand to see an old woman like me live in peace. Bi Qiong was so pure and good, yet you lured her astray, bringing about the fruit we see today!"
She laughed and cried at once. "The sect rules are as unyielding as a mountain. I couldn't defy them. I crippled her with my own hands and personally sent her to the Sea Prison. My heart is shattered!"
She glared at Jiang Wang and Hai Jingping with venomous eyes. "I wish I could tear the flesh from your bones and drink your blood! In this life, I'll fight you to the death, and in the next, too!"
Anyone looking at her would have believed she was speaking from the heart.
Everyone present, except for the few who truly knew Jiang Wang, began to look at him with hostility.
At that moment, Jiang Wang suddenly remembered that night on