"Were you in cahoots with the sword cultivators? Did you come to the Council Hall to claim some merit, then reveal the Council Hall's secrets to the sword cultivators?" Li Chengxu tempted him. "You need only tell the truth, and we can let bygones be bygones!"
"HAHAHA~" Tu Hong burst out laughing beside them. He had not wanted to join the conversation, but seeing Li Chengxu's "ignorance," seeing him call a deer a horse, he could not help pointing a finger and saying, "Fellow Daoist Li, you... you really know how to joke! Even if the sword cultivators wanted someone to collude with them, they would not need to find a disciple in the early Foundation Establishment stage, would they? Whether late Foundation Establishment cultivators or Golden Core disciples, which of them would not have access to more secrets than a disciple in the early Foundation Establishment stage?"
"Do I need others pointing fingers at how I conduct my affairs?" Li Chengxu said coldly.
Tu Hong gave a bitter smile. "Fellow Daoist Li, you ought to think about it as well. How could a disciple in the early Foundation Establishment stage possibly accomplish so many things? If not for that Illusion Sword Swordsman deliberately allowing it, could he truly have rescued several hundred disciples?"
"Yes, that was precisely what this old man thought, which was why... Ah! Fellow Daoist Tu means..." Li Chengxu suddenly understood.
At that moment, the vast majority of the Golden Core cultivators also came to their senses. Only a few remained utterly baffled.
"Alas, when did these sword cultivators become so cunning?" Gao Wei sighed. "They let Xiao Hua rescue our Xunyan Sect disciples because they wanted the Xunyan Sect disciples to learn that the sword cultivators' strength within the spirit stone mine was weak. Gao