After Feng Xishuang finished speaking, she fell silent, her words laden with shame and regret.
"The Confucian School? Guan Qianzai? Who is that?"
Li Ping picked out the key points in her words, but the name rang no bells, so he could not help asking.
Before Feng Xishuang could answer his question, Meng Wanjun spoke first. "Young master, have you forgotten what happened in Spirit Firmament City about eighteen years ago?"
Li Ping had devoted himself to cultivation. How would he know what she was talking about?
Fortunately, Meng Wanjun seemed to read his thoughts and immediately continued explaining. "A Core Formation Cultivator wiped out a cultivation family in a neighboring commandery to seize their treasures. Later, he joined Spirit Firmament City as a guest elder. Because of the Three Elders of the Spirit Firmament, the Demon-Slaying Bureau dared not arrest him and bring him to justice. In the end, a great scholar of the Confucian Sect came to demand an accounting and publicly presented evidence of his crimes, forcing Spirit Firmament City to kill the man to distance itself from him.
"Guan Qianzai was that great scholar's name."
"Oh, him." Only then did Li Ping remember that such an incident had indeed occurred in Spirit Firmament City.
"But are they the same person?" He turned his questioning gaze toward Feng Xishuang.
Bitterness flickered in Feng Xishuang's eyes, and she nodded gently. "Young friend Meng is right. Sister Yi Ling and I were careless and killed a good man by mistake."
"So that was what happened."
Having learned the full story, Li Ping fell into thought.
As a mere mortal, Guan Qianzai had relied on his backing from the Confucian Sect to put Spirit Firmament City in an impossible position. In the end, it could only publicly execute its own