"Hmph, good thing I stuck to my principles and tested your spirit root!"
Mu Yunbai abruptly stopped laughing, his expression shifting from wild delight to contempt. "Otherwise, trash with a 'waste spirit root' like you really would have slipped into our Supreme Good Sect...
"Wouldn't everyone in the sect have lost face?
"Wouldn't you agree, Senior Sister Ye?"
That final question from Mu Yunbai truly drove the blade straight into the heart!
Ye Qingyi's stunning face instantly turned cold as frost.
She narrowed her eyes, her gaze gouging into Mu Yunbai like a pair of cold iron daggers.
"You-"
She had just been about to speak.
But Qin Yao interrupted her, his voice full of bewilderment. "Um..."
"According to the test results, I can clearly sense all five spiritual energy elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
"My spirit root is so comprehensive, so how did it end up being a 'waste spirit root'?"
Qin Yao asked with utter sincerity, without the slightest trace of pretense in his bright black eyes.
He genuinely could not make sense of this.
"Heh, country bumpkin. You don't even understand that?"
Mu Yunbai sneered, curling his lips to expose a row of stark white teeth, like a vicious dog spotting its chance to sink its fangs in. "Then allow me to give you a proper lesson-"
"Shut your mouth!"
Ye Qingyi abruptly cut him off with a sharp shout.
Her voice was cold and urgent, every word a lash of a whip striking Mu Yunbai across the face!
She knew all too well what he was scheming.
Giving Qin Yao an "educational explanation" was merely his pretext.
What he truly wanted was to use cutting words and a contemptuous attitude to grind this young man's self-respect into dust, inch by inch!
Mu Yunbai shrank