Everyone from the Chan Sect had fled.
The Golden Spirit Holy Mother studied Jiang Ming curiously. This was her first time meeting the man accompanying Zhao Gongming, so naturally, she was curious. His methods in particular struck her as truly formidable. He was a powerful, mysterious Quasi-Saint.
Besides, much about what had happened today still remained unexplained.
Jiang Ming released Shiji directly. Her injuries had already healed by fifty or sixty percent, and she was no longer in any serious danger. All she needed now was to recuperate properly.
Then, naturally, everyone began asking Shiji how the whole affair had unfolded.
Just as Caiyun Child and Biyun Child had said, Shiji had stumbled into a great tribulation without knowing why and had nearly died. Fortunately, Jiang Ming and Zhao Gongming had arrived in time.
The unluckiest of all, however, was Ma Yuan. That bootlicker had met a miserable end. He had come to fawn over Shiji, only to arrive just in time to throw his life away.
Still, when Ma Yuan came up, Shiji was deeply grateful to him for saving her life. But she still disliked his way of doing things. Ma Yuan followed crooked, heretical paths. When fighting others with magic, he especially loved devouring their internal organs to aid his cultivation.
He could be described as utterly savage.
Moreover, his death had given the Interception Sect the advantage in this dispute.
No matter who objected later, even if Yuanshi Tianzun himself took the matter to Sect Master Tongtian, the Interception Sect would still have reason and evidence on its side.
As for who had truly been scheming behind this affair...
Jiang Ming advised them to pay closer attention to the Western Teachings. Its two Saints still owed karmic debts to the Heavenly Dao, and they would stop