"Who was this person? Why didn't Fellow Immortal Xiao bring him here as well?" Professor Du frowned and asked.
"Hmph, why should this Xiao bring him here? So you can silence him forever?" Xiao Hua sneered. "That man did not say much. He only said that last night, he saw someone enter Qiyang Temple under cover of darkness, and vaguely saw Wu Qian nearby as well!"
"You... You came back and killed Wu Qian based on that alone?" Professor Du grew even more displeased.
Xiao Hua sneered again. "Do you think this Xiao is that sort of person? If I were, I would have searched Wu Qian's soul the moment I saw him!"
"Search his soul? You... you used the Soul Searching Technique on Wu Qian?" Professor Du's expression changed drastically.
"Indeed. If this Xiao had not searched Wu Qian's soul, how would I have known that he knowingly broke the law and, last night, brought several constables to keep watch for the murderers near Qiyang Temple? If this Xiao had not searched his soul, how would I have known that he disregarded the law, accepted Jiang Wenhao's bribes, and intended to hand Xiluo Ridge, property of our Daoist sect, over to the Jiang family? If this Xiao had not searched his soul, how would I have ruthlessly killed Wu Qian, Zhuo Hong, Wang Tingyue, Zhang Chang, and Xu Hongxi? Why did this Xiao not kill all the other constables stationed at Qiyang Temple? If this Xiao had not searched his soul, how would I have dared to carry Master Dao Shan's remains and storm Tongzhu Academy?" Xiao Hua's every word rang like thunder across the surrounding fields. With each sentence, the expressions of the students changed. By the time he had finished, not only were the hundreds of villagers