Everyone's expressions changed.
Clear River Fairy wore an especially tooth-aching expression.
You really would not stop until your words stabbed someone to death. This Junior Sister Duanmu was already boiling with rage at you, yet you still dared speak in that tone. You were forcing her to turn hostile on the spot.
Duanmu Can did not turn hostile, at least not visibly.
But her voice turned icy. "So, you admit to the crime of stealing two of this young lady's divine powers and leaving a flaw in this young lady's Dao Path?"
"You overstate it, miss," Lin Xiaosu said. "This was truly the will of Heaven, not something I deliberately sought. Think about it: back then, you and I were complete strangers, separated by two realms. How could I have known that you were cultivating in seclusion within a coffin? At the time, I was merely an ordinary man. It was only because, amid the boundless sea of stars, I looked one extra time that this affinity came to be. I would rather regard it as a wondrous encounter, a kind connection bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, rather than some grave crime for which I must pay a price."
It was a long speech, yet every word was reasonable and heartfelt.
Everyone had to admit that this truly had been the will of Heaven.
One had to know that the place where Duanmu Can cultivated was called the Remnant Realm.
Even they could not enter it.
Not even the Abyss Lord could enter.
Who from the Outside World could enter and disrupt her cultivation?
No matter how powerful the man before them was, he could not possibly have entered deliberately. The only thing that could have allowed him in was the will of Heaven...
"The will of Heaven!" Duanmu Can