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"": "Bai Su's actions already amounted to betraying his master and disgracing his lineage. By rights, he had to be punished. The Peak Master intended to hand him over to the Abbott Real Person for judgment. He would probably end up being sent to Thunder Leap Cliff."
Ultimately, Bai Su would still be granted a clean death.
Bai Guanli, however, had undergone corpse liberation just after becoming a Real Person. It was tantamount to having his path of cultivation severed.
Although they did not know everything that had happened to Bai Xian, they knew she must have suffered a great deal of torment.
By comparison, Bai Su was getting off far too easily.
Making him suffer a little would help everyone feel better.
"Oh my, you certainly are a man, but why is your face so smooth and beardless?"
"I shouldn't insult women. You're certainly no woman. You have no sense of responsibility, no resolve, no determination, no courage. You'd rather cling to a miserable life than take a risk to survive. Tell me, what does that make you?"
"A eunuch?"
Xu Lu reached out and patted Bai Su's face.
"You're getting off far too lightly. If Taoist Bai Xian were here, she ought to slice you into a thousand pieces."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. I don't know whether anyone else has mentioned it, but Taoist Bai Xian has quite a resilient mind. Your persecution didn't break her. She's about to become a Real Person. Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow?"
Xu Lu's words were not exactly foul, but they were exceptionally humiliating.
Bai Su's eyes widened again, almost bulging out of their sockets.
"You!"
"You're lying!"
"That's impossible!"
"Have none of you Taoists told him about this?"
Xu Lu turned to look at the other