"Wait!"
Saint Lord Lingbo hurriedly raised a hand to stop them.
By now, he no longer dared harbor even the slightest doubt about their identities.
That boldness, that unflinching composure-who could they be if not Emperor Pavilion Envoys?
Surely they could not be people from another sacred land?
Even if someone lent them a hundred times the courage, would they dare?
And even if they were from another sacred land, could they have entered the grotto heaven and blessed land of his Heavenly Water Sacred Land?!
After all, everyone knew that only the Emperor Pavilion possessed the secret art for breaking through the sacred lands' Mountain-Guarding Grand Arrays!
He hurriedly cupped his hands. "My lords, I think... there must be some misunderstanding here!"
"Please... please give this humble servant a chance to investigate thoroughly!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Exactly!" The elders behind him immediately stepped forward as well, their voices trembling.
"Our Heavenly Water Sacred Land has always upheld the principle of slaying demons and exorcising evil. We have never strayed from it!"
"We would never collude with demon cultivators, much less be a demon cavern!"
"Please... please examine the matter carefully, my lords!"
Mu Qinglan froze again.
Humble servant?! Examine the matter carefully?!
This... this, this, this!
A mighty lord of a sacred land was actually so frightened by the elders of my Azure Cloud Sect that he called himself a "humble servant"?!
For some reason, an inexplicable surge of excitement rose within her!
But then her heart jolted again.
Wait!
This... the elders of my Azure Cloud Sect were impersonating Emperor Pavilion Envoys and had come here to deliberately frighten them?
Mu Qinglan looked at the elders, each possessed by the spirit of a born actor, and felt that something was wrong.
The only possibility was... these people had