Simply Put, She Was in Heat

Upon hearing Yan Shaozhe's words.

The Sea God Pavilion elder known as Elder Li silently swallowed the words that had reached his lips.

He said sullenly,

"Shaozhe is right. I was presumptuous."

He knew that everything Yan Shaozhe had said was true.

Too many people on the continent owed Bai Luo favors.

Commoners, Soul Masters, nobles, politicians...

People from nearly every walk of life had benefited from him.

From the information available on the surface,

there were even several Titled Douluo among them.

If the matter spread to the outside world, it would indeed cause trouble.

He bore Bai Luo neither grudge nor resentment.

What he had said just now had merely been a reasonable suspicion.

Naturally, he had no desire to invite trouble upon himself, so he wisely shut his mouth at once.

"Enough."

At the head seat,

Mu En, half-reclining in a rocking chair, slowly spoke.

The entire Sea God Pavilion instantly fell silent.

Even Xuan Zi stopped gnawing on the chicken leg in his hand.

All eyes fell upon that thin, frail figure, old and worn with age.

The master of the Sea God Pavilion, and the person with the greatest authority in all of Sea God Pavilion.

Even the ever-proud and unruly Xuan Zi had to behave as obediently as a baby before him.

Mu En slowly opened his half-lidded eyes.

There was none of the cloudiness common in the elderly within those eyes; they were even brighter than those of most young people.

"Who was pulling the strings is something the White Tiger Duke should concern himself with, not something Shrek Academy should concern itself with."

"I do not wish to see such baseless suspicions arise again. Understood?"

Mu En set the final tone for this discussion.

Clearly, he too was more inclined to protect