Li Qingfeng and the elders grabbed Mu Qinglan and dragged her aside, far enough away that Chun Xiaobai could no longer see her. Then they laid down a concealment array and pinned the furious Mu Qinglan in place.
"Sect Master! Calm down! Calm down!"
"Calm down?!" Mu Qinglan jerked her head sideways at those words, glaring fiercely at Li Qingfeng and Zhou Qingyi, the woman beside him whom she trusted most.
"Li Qingfeng! Zhou Qingyi! So this is how it is! I regarded you as the Sect's grandmasters!"
"As my trusted confidants!"
"And you... this is how you treat me?!"
As she spoke, Mu Qinglan's eyes reddened.
"I..." Zhou Qingyi started to explain, but she had no idea where to begin.
They had sneaked out to make a fortune behind her back. In other words, it amounted to betrayal.
Beside her, however, Li Qingfeng said without blushing or missing a heartbeat, "Qinglan! How can you say that? Why did we come here? Wasn't it all for the Sect?"
"For the Sect?! You ran off behind my back to extort people, and you call that doing it for the Sect?!"
Mu Qinglan's brows drew together again. "At your age, you're still following some greenhorn brat into this sort of racket?! Aren't you ashamed?!"
"Uh!" Embarrassment returned to Li Qingfeng's face, and he scratched his head. "Well... it is a little embarrassing."
"But... but..."
Seeing their utterly unrepentant expressions, Mu Qinglan's fury surged!
Her hand shook, and she drew the Heaven-Piercing Spear!
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Several Grand Supreme Elders rushed forward and restrained Mu Qinglan, hastily explaining.
"Sect Master! Calm down, calm down! Do... do you know who that boy is?"
"Who?! Isn't he just a little bandit with enough gall to defy heaven?!"
Zhou Qingyi hurried forward to explain. "He... he's