After the matter of acknowledging her parents was over, Ming Yun had managed to distance herself from it, but there were still plenty of people pointing fingers at her.
Ming Yun felt as though these people were about to drive her mad.
Fortunately, after the couple was sent away, the pill-refining competition began.
Shortly before the competition, Sect Leader Li summoned Ming Yun to her room alone.
Sect Leader Li stared at Ming Yun for a long while. Only when Ming Yun began to panic did she slowly speak. "Do you know why I called you here?"
Ming Yun pressed her lips together and shook her head.
Sect Leader Li turned her gaze toward the window, no longer looking at her, but her expression darkened visibly. "I know you have your own little schemes.
"But you should also understand the situation. I won't ask where you found your helpers this time, but before you do something like this again, you had better inform me first."
Sect Leader Li's words sounded quite polite, but Ming Yun heard the unmistakable warning within them.
Ming Yun panicked for a moment, but thinking of that person steadied her heart again.
Ming Yun answered meekly, "Master, I understand. This really was just an accident."
Then, as though something had occurred to her, she could not help asking, "But Master, why move the pill-refining competition ahead of the Array Competition?"
Sect Leader Li snorted coldly. "Do you truly think you extricated yourself from that affair without leaving a trace? Do you remember what you said to Su Jiu before the parentage test?"
Ming Yun's expression shifted.
"You should know that a cultivator's memory is completely different from a fish's. Fish can easily forget what happened a moment ago, but cultivators cannot."
"And the reason I moved