"Exactly!"
"That fiend must have deliberately claimed a connection to His Majesty before dying, hoping to sully his sacred name!"
The Yun Clan naturally put even more effort into it, with Second Elder Yun Yuan angrily denouncing him on the spot.
"Shameless evil cultivator! Utterly brazen!"
"His Majesty clearly executed him on Heaven's behalf, yet he dared turn around and accuse his executioner! What an absurd joke!"
An elder beside him immediately chimed in. "That proves we cannot believe even half a word out of the Demon Flower Evil Lord's mouth!"
"Precisely!"
"His Majesty is utterly innocent! Heaven and earth bear witness!"
Yun Qing: "..."
He stood in the middle, listening to shouts from his left and cries from his right. Peering at Brother Huang's increasingly expressionless face, he hurriedly cleared his throat.
"Ahem."
Yun Yuan's righteous denunciation paused for an instant.
Yun Qing coughed again and shot him an exceedingly discreet look.
Too much. You're overacting.
Especially you, Second Elder. Why does that line about "His Majesty being utterly innocent, with heaven and earth as witnesses" sound more and more like you're protesting too much?
Any more acting and it would really look fake. He feared Brother Huang might demonstrate the meaning of a "scorching palm strike" the very next moment, slapping every last one of them flying.
An old fox like Yun Yuan understood instantly and reined himself in at once.
"In short."
The old man flicked his sleeve.
"The evil cultivator is dead. This matter ends here!"
Everyone: "Yes, yes, yes."
"It ends here. None of us will mention it."
"I can swear an oath!"
"The Demon Court will never spread word of it either!"
The fox-clan expert who had quietly taken out a Communication Jade earlier slipped it back into his sleeve with perfect nonchalance, as