"Ning Jin?"
Throughout the great hall, aside from Elder Spirit Charm, everyone who saw Chen Changming revealed looks of shock.
Their expressions were as though they had seen a ghost, eyes bulging wide and mouths slightly agape.
Liu Chengfeng in particular went pale at once, as if someone had brushed him with a coat of white paint.
He pointed shakily at Chen Changming, stammering soundlessly as "huh, huh" noises escaped his throat.
He had never imagined that not long after sending this fellow in, Elder Spirit Charm would bring him back out.
Wasn't this Ning Jin Chu Qiushui's grand-disciple? How had he been brought out by Elder Spirit Charm, who came from the demonic path?
Though Chu Qiushui and Elder Spirit Charm were both among the Three Elders of the Royal City, one followed the righteous path and the other the demonic path. They normally had little contact with one another.
How had Ning Jin managed to climb aboard Elder Spirit Charm's line?
It made no sense at all.
Liu Chengfeng was not the only one thinking so. Everyone in the hall had the same thought.
For a moment, dozens of gazes shifted back and forth between Chen Changming and Elder Spirit Charm, trying to find some clue in their expressions.
Zhuo Shanhai was the first to recover his senses.
He drew a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, and asked respectfully, "Grand Elder, this... Ning Jin was brought out by you?"
Elder Spirit Charm nodded.
Her gaze swept over the people in the hall as she said indifferently, "Ning Jin helped me obtain the latter half of a cultivation technique in the prison, which counts as a great merit. I propose that his merit offset his transgression and that he be exempted from punishment. What do the