Although the women had only held that conversation after moving some distance away, Su Jiu's divine sense had remained on them.
Their entire conversation had therefore reached her ears, and it was not hard to tell that these female cultivators had deliberately been stirring up trouble.
A thoughtful look flickered through Su Jiu's eyes.
But before she could identify the crux of the matter, the Righteous Female Cultivator interrupted her thoughts. She first cupped her fist toward Su Jiu, then said, "I can't see through your Cultivation Level, so I imagine it must be about the same as mine. Though I know it's a little unfair, I still hope you won't trouble them again. They're only a bunch of children in the Foundation Establishment Realm, after all."
Su Jiu raised an eyebrow. So this female cultivator, whom she had met once before, had acted to protect that group, afraid that if they provoked Su Jiu too far, she would slaughter them outright?
Su Jiu suddenly remembered the incident at Great March Mountain. It seemed that she had also intervened then because she had decided Su Jiu was bullying Xiaotao.
Su Jiu began to question herself. Do I really look that much like an utterly unreasonable villain?
That was not actually the case. In the Righteous Female Cultivator's mind, she always favored the weaker side. Essentially, whoever was weaker was in the right.
And Su Jiu, who had not said a single word from beginning to end, had been branded a calculating, ruthless woman.
It was not entirely surprising that she thought this way. After all, throughout her cultivation journey, she had encountered plenty of cultivators who wore one face in public and another behind closed doors.
They could even swallow humiliation and bear heavy burdens in public, only to turn