There was no doubt!
At that moment, everyone's eyes were filled with suspicion.
If anyone among the Sages could strike in secret, breach the Interception Sect Protective Formation, and do so without a sound...
Then Yuanshi was naturally the most likely candidate.
Only their fear of his might as a Sage kept them from voicing their thoughts outright.
Yet whether it was Duobao and the other Jie Sect Disciples or the countless cultivators watching, faint looks of contempt had already begun to show on their faces.
A mighty Sage scheming against a Named Disciple of the Interception Sect's Outer Sect?!
And all he had managed in the end was to kill a boy attending Shi Ji?!
Since when had Sage Yuanshi... fallen so low?!
As though sensing what everyone was thinking...
Yuanshi's expression stiffened slightly, but he quickly resumed his imposing demeanor.
"Hmph. Even if outside power aided him, that was brought about by Nezha's own fortune. What does it have to do with me?"
He turned to Nezha's own fortune as his excuse.
That explanation was not entirely groundless.
After all, some dazzling talents who shook the ages could indeed unleash power far beyond their cultivation realms if they were blessed with heaven-surging fortune.
Gu Changqing refused to let the matter go, however. His smile seemed both mocking and as though he had seen through everything.
Gulp...
Gulp...
He tipped his head back and took several great swigs of fine wine before continuing:
"Senior Uncle Yuanshi... uh... isn't this talk of fortune a little far-fetched?"
"Nezha is so young. Where would he get fortune great enough to disregard our Interception Sect's Great Array?"
"Besides, if he truly possessed such tremendous fortune, why didn't he shoot Junior Martial Sister Shi Ji dead outright, instead of merely killing that boy?"
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