When everyone saw He Pingsheng take out a bottle with a drop of [Southern Bough Immortal Spring] inside, they all lost their composure.
The Phoenix Race grew somewhat flustered!
Feng Wanxi's brows furrowed too.
As she saw it, He Pingsheng had never refined any supreme-grade pills before, only producing that peculiar batch of one supreme-grade pill and eleven high-grade pills on his final attempt. He had definitely used the Southern Bough Immortal Spring.
So, from beginning to end, Feng Wanxi had genuinely believed that He Pingsheng had used the Southern Bough Immortal Spring.
Well, after all that, you hadn't used it?
Before He Pingsheng took out the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, all of Feng Wanxi's witnesses and evidence had been ironclad.
Anyone who saw that evidence would have concluded that He Pingsheng had used the Southern Bough Immortal Spring.
Yet once He Pingsheng produced the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, that supposedly ironclad evidence no longer quite held up.
"Something's not right here!"
"From the looks of it, He Pingsheng did intend to use the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, but ultimately never did!"
"Exactly... if he didn't use it, we can't conclude that he cheated!"
"This supposed cheating probably doesn't hold water!"
Quite a few Demon Emperors began speaking up for He Pingsheng, though not because they felt he had been wronged or out of kindness.
Rather, some of them had prodigies from their own Lineages who had also used the Southern Bough Immortal Spring, so investigating further would do them no good. Besides, the Phoenix Race was too powerful. Although the other Demon Emperors all treated the Phoenix Race with respect on the surface, in reality, if they had a chance to throw stones at them while they were down in a well, they would not pass it up.
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