"What do you mean by this, Crown Prince?"
Su Che raised the Unmarked Sword and gave Yun Yun a slight salute.
"Zuo Lengchan, a Rogue Cultivator from the Central Land, greets Your Highness."
"Zuo Lengchan?"
Yun Yun glared at Su Che.
"Why did you kill my subordinates and wound my people?"
Ordinarily, he would already have ordered his men to flay this damned Rogue Cultivator, tear out his bones, and turn his soul into a toy for the palace. But he had lost a great many of his people, several of his Reverted Elixir subordinates were injured, and even Yun Yun himself felt somewhat drained.
The backlash from the broken formation had truly been hard to recover from.
"Your Highness may not know this, but the one who broke your formation just now was a notorious fiend of the Central Land. He once made mischief in the Great Liang Palace, stealing the palace eunuchs' waistbands. The Great Liang Court put a bounty on his head and hunted him across the realm. But he possesses a Void artifact, so no one has ever been able to track him down."
Su Che spoke with easy confidence.
"I've crossed swords with that fiend several times myself. I spotted the thief hiding in Your Highness's formation at a glance. He seemed intent on harming you, so I struck in righteous anger."
As he spoke, his eyes kept darting toward General Black Carp.
"I warned the general several times, but he refused to listen. Instead, he forced the formation into action, bringing about this disaster."
Yun Yun looked thoughtful, but General Black Carp could not let this Zuo Lengchan keep throwing mud at him.
If Zuo Lengchan's account stood, then he had made the mistake: he had not only let a villain slip into the