"These people had also been misled by the Fu Family's upper ranks. They... weren't bad people. At least, most of them weren't.
Otherwise, my sister and I could never have escaped death time and again."
Fu Qianfan scratched his head and quietly voiced his thoughts to Su Shi'er.
Su Shi'er nodded calmly, not finding this surprising.
Two people at the third level of the Qi Refining stage, with Fu Qianxue clearly seriously injured—under normal circumstances, even if they were hunted by Fu Family disciples in the Qi Refining stage, it would have been difficult for them to escape alive.
If someone—or perhaps more than one or two people—had secretly gone easy on them, then everything made sense.
It seemed... the Fu Family's situation was even more troublesome than he had imagined.
For so many ordinary disciples to have noticed something was wrong, the roots of the Fu Family... were likely rotten through.
After pondering silently, Su Shi'er nodded. "You did well. Leave the rest... to me."
Having said that, he did not wait for Fu Qianfan's reply before turning his gaze to the Fu Family's Great Elder ahead.
Su Shi'er did not speak, while the latter remained bent at the waist, still holding his respectful bow.
"Rise and speak."
With a casual wave of his hand, Su Shi'er finally spoke.
As though granted a pardon, the other man lowered his arms and straightened up.
"Fu Qingyun pays his respects to Senior. May I ask Senior's dharma name?"
His uneasy gaze fell on Su Shi'er as Fu Qingyun asked in a low voice.
He was indeed at the Out of Body stage, but no matter how he looked, he could not see through the person before him at all.
Even his eye technique had been effortlessly broken the instant it met