"Would this count as our first formal meeting?" Qian Daoliu's tone was utterly calm, yet beneath that calm, storms, thunder, and lightning seemed to roar. His quiet voice and body, which gave off not the slightest fluctuation of soul power, were terrifying.
"Yes." Su Chen nodded. "You didn't summon me just to say that, did you?"
"Are all young people this impatient?" Qian Daoliu paused, then continued, "Do you know why your teacher questioned you over the matter of Tang Hao?"
"Why?" Su Chen asked curiously.
In the original storyline, Bibi Dong had mobilized considerable forces to kill Xiao Wu. Only through Tang Hao's intervention had Xiao Wu and Tang San escaped with their lives. Had Bibi Dong truly accepted what Su Chen had said?
Su Chen harbored doubts about that himself. After all, that was a soul ring with a hundred-thousand-year age! Yet Bibi Dong had actually restrained herself in the end.
"Because someone told her that a group of unidentified people had slipped into Spirit City," Qian Daoliu said.
"Oh," Su Chen murmured.
"She was worried that those people might be yours! Or that someone had already told you about it at the time. She suspected that you had your own trusted followers within Spirit Hall!" Qian Daoliu continued.
"Did you summon me here just to sow discord?" Su Chen's brows rose slightly, his tone turning displeased.
"Sow discord? Given my position, do you think I need to do that?" Qian Daoliu asked calmly.
Su Chen shook his head.
Besides being Spirit Hall's Judgment Elder, Qian Daoliu had the support of most of the elders in the Elder Hall. Furthermore, he was one of the three great Limit Douluos of the age, among those closest to becoming gods.
Spirit Hall was merely the Elder Hall's puppet. With a