The next moment, space split open...
A group of people stepped out from the spatial passage. At their head was an elderly man at the Divine Martial Stage of the Divine Emperor Realm, with Ling Yugui from earlier following beside him. They lowered their eyes to look at the ruins of the tavern.
The Divine Emperor Realm elder said, "All uninvolved parties, leave at once!"
At those words, the densely packed spectators could only depart in haste. Ordinary people simply did not dare defy the orders of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family's main branch.
Other than Island Master Ma Shuquan and a few others, the area around the tavern was completely emptied.
Then Ling Yugui summoned Ma Shuquan over and had him explain the matter clearly once more. The latter repeated everything, including how the young master Ling in black was Ling Mi'er's long-missing second brother, as well as the words shouted by the Mysterious Xiao Sect elder.
That was to say...
Ling Mi'er and her brother had put something in the wine, thereby murdering Xiao Nanpan.
Naturally, he stressed that this was what the Mysterious Xiao Sect elder had claimed, and that Ling Mi'er and her brother remaining here was to prove their innocence.
At this, the Divine Emperor Realm elder nodded...
Then he narrowed his eyes and looked toward Sikong Jing and Ling Mi'er atop the tavern ruins.
He extended a finger... Boom!
He directly shattered the barrier Sikong Jing had just set up, then drifted down with Ling Yugui and the others.
The Divine Emperor Realm elder casually swept his gaze across the scene. He looked at the Mysterious Xiao Sect members whom Sikong Jing had blasted flat and placed under restrictions, then at Xiao Nanpan's corpse. "Bring Young Master Xiao's body over."
He ignored Sikong Jing and