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"": "At that moment, outside Qiang Village, at the top of the slope beyond the fourth Resting Place.
The red, purple, pink, and yellow flowers looked exquisitely beautiful.
Shangguan Xingyue stood before the Flower Garden, her cheeks slightly puffed out, looking deeply aggrieved.
An old man stood beside her.
"Master, I don't understand."
"Li Yunyi is an outsider too. You gave him Cabinet Mountain Town, so it's perfectly normal for some of the other disciples to feel unhappy. It's even more normal for someone to raze his Flower Garden. If he wasn't capable of protecting it, that's his own problem. You were clearly angry too, and you left that place. Why must I go back to him? Why must I deliver that couple to him?"
As Shangguan Xingyue spoke, her eyes reddened further, and she looked even more aggrieved.
The old man wore a calm expression with a trace of a smile. Only then did he say, "Do you truly believe one of our disciples did all this?"
Shangguan Xingyue froze, then asked cautiously, "Did you perform a divination? Did you discover something suspicious? If it wasn't a disciple, who else could it have been?"
"You can't understand it now, but you will. This Outsider from Beyond the Mountain is no ordinary man."
"I did intend to perform a divination, but I was affected by some Heavenly Interference. Someone else was divining his fate, and that person also came from Outside the Mountain."
"Our divinations collided and tangled together, producing a confused reading," the old man replied.
Shangguan Xingyue remained dumbfounded.
That wasn't what she had asked. She wanted to know whether her master had divined that someone was plotting against Li Yunyi, and who that person was.
Yet her master was talking about the Outsider