Yet Ye Wukui stood frozen in place. An icy chill ran through his entire body, and only one thought remained in his mind: Why was Ba Hun's successor still alive?
The same thought echoed in the hearts of everyone from Willow Leaf.
They had received reports of corpses and severed limbs. Just moments ago, they had even watched Xiong Tingting's Light-Returning Mirror and confirmed it was real.
More terrifying still, everything they had just done had only been possible on the premise that Ba Hun's successor was dead.
But now he had appeared alive. Things were truly about to go horribly wrong.
At that moment, Sikong Jing looked over the bewildered crowd in the hall before turning to Ye Wucan and asking, "Manor Lord Ye, is there any problem with me beating and stepping on her now? Does that make me a lecherous scoundrel for ogling this old hag too?"
Once the words fell, the entire hall remained stunned, still unable to react.
Ye Wucan in particular felt a chill seep into his heart. Sikong Jing's words proved that he had been listening outside all along.
But why had he sensed nothing? And what the hell had the people outside been doing?
At last, Ye Wukui was the first to come back to his senses. "Ba Hun... A-Jing, whatever you have to say, let go of your second grandaunt first."
With Ba Hun's successor appearing alive after death, regardless of whether there was evidence pointing at Ye Lushi, no one dared act recklessly again.
A single word from him could decide whether Willow Leaf Holy Manor lived or died.
Yet Sikong Jing ignored him and looked again at Ye Wucan.
"The matter of my sister-in-law Ye Yuexian is already perfectly clear. Ye Lushi forced her into the Holy Tomb Demon