"Th-this... is this the true face of these Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends heroes?"
"Didn't they say they would show us how open and aboveboard they were? Why has it turned into their own infighting instead?"
"You can know a man's face but never his heart! They usually look so respectable, yet who would have thought they were like this in private!"
"That is not necessarily right. How do you know someone is not deliberately slandering them?"
"If it is slander, why are Song Tiankui and the others not refuting it? Why do they look like they have been caught in the wrong?"
"When all is said and done, the Marquis of Pacifying the Realm was right. Other than fighting and killing, what else do these people know? Did you not see the surprised looks on Song Tiankui and the others' faces when the Marquis asked about the Residential Care Institute and the Beneficent Medicine Bureau? If disaster relief were handed over to them, would that not be disastrous? Who could rest easy?"
"Talking is easy enough, but someone has to do the work in the end!"
"The schemes and calculations of these so-called heroes run truly deep. Today's situation was clearly something they deliberately created, but they could not match the Marquis of Pacifying the Realm's breadth of experience, and so they were defeated and threw themselves into disarray."
"Though the Marquis of Pacifying the Realm is a lackey of the imperial court, he truly is learned and erudite. From what we just saw, that strange radiance was connected to him as well..." Similar conversations rang out endlessly throughout the mountain stronghold.
In truth, the watery mist curtain already showed that quite a few Heavenly Spirits leaders had tacitly accepted the accusations. Some had even joined in exposing the