Under everyone's persuasion, the leader of the gatekeepers, his expression flickering with uncertainty, finally staggered to his feet. He tested Sikong Jing and Ling Mi'er, registered them according to the rules, and so on.
In the end, he could only watch the two of them step through the array gate.
Not until Sikong Jing and Ling Mi'er had completely vanished beyond the array gate did the entire scene erupt... in an uproar!
Waves of clamorous noise rose, soon turning into a storm of discussion...
"What are Ling Jianxing and his sister doing? They clearly know this is a dead end. Instead of fleeing the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family's territory, they actually came to Nine Swords Isle. Is there something wrong with their heads?"
"Exactly. This behavior is bizarre in the extreme."
"I understand now. Ling Jianxing doesn't believe he's guilty, so he deliberately came here to make a scene, to prove that he didn't kill Xiao Nanpan. The normal testing and registration and all that are meant to emphasize that they're innocent."
All kinds of discussions rang out without end...
In the end, everyone decided that was exactly the case. Ling Jianxing and his sister had deliberately come to make a huge fuss.
"To put it bluntly, it's just that so-called pride of his. He simply refuses to admit that he's a criminal."
"I heard Ling Jianxing only just reappeared after having been missing for a long time. He can't accept the identity of a criminal, and he still carries that so-called backbone of a genius and all that... But it's useless. The Crescent Moon Lineage was personally branded criminal by Elder Ling Dongwei."
"The harder he makes trouble, the more miserably the Crescent Moon Lineage will die."
As such analyses and judgments spread, everyone secretly shuddered.
Even within the Heaven-Soaring