"Back then, to cultivate, you not only slaughtered Soul Beasts indiscriminately, but used your scorpion tail to suck out just that tiny bit of heart's blood from powerful Soul Beasts."
"In a single month, you killed so many that the Soul Beast Forest actually launched a small-scale beast tide without any ferocious beast ordering it."
"If Elder Mu hadn't happened to be serving as Shrek City's city lord that year, and been responsible enough to spot the rampaging beast tide immediately and stop it single-handedly, no human lives would have been lost. Otherwise, do you think Elder Mu would have let you off?"
Xuan Zi's words, which thoroughly exposed Zhang Peng's past, helped fill Chen Ping in on the contradiction of why Shrek had branded Zhang Peng an Evil Soul Master back then, yet let him go.
This fucking Zhang Peng really couldn't keep his hands to himself.
Slaughtering Soul Beasts indiscriminately was bad enough, but he had only sucked out that tiny bit of heart's blood, even causing a small-scale beast tide in the process.
He really hadn't been wronged by getting a beating instead of being beaten to death by Mu En back then.
Zhang Peng had not expected Mu En to have told Xuan Zi the whole story of what he had done decades ago. His face immediately alternated between green and red.
"That still doesn't make me an Evil Soul Master! I no longer slaughter innocents to cultivate. These past few decades, I've only killed Soul Beasts when I needed to improve my cultivation!"
Xuan Zi snorted coldly. "Even so, the number of Soul Beasts you have to hunt over your lifetime of cultivation already exceeds what hundreds or even thousands of Soul Masters need for their entire lives."
"Zhang Peng, with your current cultivation, I'm