In that instant, quite a few people felt a trace of sympathy for Ming Yun.
After all, anyone with eyes could tell that the elders from the Water Moon School and the Bright Moon School had voted that way because they were at odds. Without that conflict between them, the result might well have been different.
But Lie Wushuang, seated below the stage, thought otherwise. Paying no heed to the gazes around her, she lounged lazily in her chair and sneered, "What an act."
Where did Ming Yun's tears leave Gu Ningyun?
She made it look as though their Ningyun had bullied her. At that moment, Lie Wushuang's disgust for Ming Yun reached its peak.
Of course, Lie Wushuang was not the only one. Many who saw through the situation could not help frowning slightly.
Xia Jue's gaze turned cold. He hated seeing the person onstage wear the same face as his junior sister while making such an expression.
Li Yishi was also watching Ming Yun onstage.
Unlike the others, however, he only felt his heart breaking as he watched her cry.
He longed to hold her in his arms and comfort her...
And in that instant, he had already forgotten the looks he had endured when he left the stage.
In the blink of an eye, another two days passed. After deliberation, the matter finally concluded with Tang Wuchen in first place, Gu Ningyun in second, and Ming Yun in third. Still, the looks everyone gave Gu Ningyun carried a subtle undertone.
One female cultivator from the Heavenly Dawn Sect even mocked her without restraint. "Hah, a third-tier pill beating a fourth-tier pill. That certainly sets a precedent. If this hadn't happened, we would never have known the Heavenly Music Pavilion and the Medicine Gate were such close