Sect Leader Li could not have cleared her name even with a hundred mouths. She knew the facts were right before everyone's eyes, and anything she said now would sound like an attempt to explain them away.
If she claimed the Azure Tide Sect had deliberately engineered this, it would be even harder to explain, because everyone's first thought would be that the Heavenly Dawn Sect had plotted against the Azure Tide Sect first.
By now, Sect Leader Li no longer wanted to make an issue of Xie Gu. She only wanted to pass the whole affair off as a misunderstanding, but she had not expected the Fifth Elder to refuse to let it rest.
"Since Sect Leader Li has brought the culprit here, why not interrogate him on the spot? That would save you from casually finding another sect's disciple to carry the blame."
Those words instantly reddened Sect Leader Li's face, half from shame and half from anger.
Although she had exaggerated the matter, Xie Gu's attempt to assassinate Xie Liang was still a fact. Yet in this old bastard's mouth, it had somehow become her falsely accusing the Azure Tide Sect.
But remembering the other sects present, Sect Leader Li could only swallow this bitter anger, whether she wanted to or not.
What she had expected even less was that her own junior disciples would be adding fuel to the fire below.
"I heard Senior Brother Lu say before that Xie Liang stole his position as a personal disciple. I never thought he would actually try to kill him."
"Even back in the Azure Tide Sect, Lu Tianqi had an extremely radical temperament. He always treated himself as the center of everything he did. For a woman, he gave up a perfectly good position as a true