"True Person Xiao, spare our lives! True Person Xiao, spare our lives!"
"We only came... to take a look. We had no other intentions!"
Seeing that they could not escape, the several men all turned around, their faces ashen, and cried out for mercy.
Xiao Hua looked coldly at them and asked, "What are these 'other intentions' you speak of?"
"I... I..." The cultivators all stammered, not daring to answer.
"Speak!" Xiao Hua shouted sternly. "If you do not, this old man will kill you all right now!"
"Yes, yes..." The cultivator at the front was quite quick-witted and hurriedly replied, "This junior heard... heard that Senior Xiao possesses Devil Race cultivation techniques and is... is a spy of the Devil Race. What True Person Xiao previously said about a Devil Emperor leading the Devil Race to destroy ten sects at the Southwest frontier was merely a pretext, meant to lure cultivators from the Ruins here to provide aid so you could kill them! In truth, the reality is... is that True Person Xiao is that Devil Emperor. You and several Devil Lords staged a grand performance and kept sects such as White Cloud Temple at the Southwest frontier completely in the dark. First, you had the Devil Lords command the Devil Race to surround them, then you easily rescued those sects yourself. Afterward, you even replaced the intact sect-protecting grand formations of those eight sects with flawed formations, and... and took an enormous amount of benefits from sects such as White Cloud Temple while you were at it!"
Xiao Hua had originally been furious, but upon hearing this, a smile instead appeared on his face. Unfortunately, in the eyes of the crowd, that smile was no different from an execution order. The cultivator was so frightened that he dared