At Mu En's words, the other Senior Elders all tacitly turned their eyes toward Xuan Zi, seated immediately below him.
Faced with so many stares, even though Xuan Zi had prepared himself for punishment, his face could not help alternating between green and white.
Every last scrap of this old face's dignity was gone.jpg
The others said nothing, simply watching Xuan Zi with amused eyes to see how long the old geezer could hold out and what sensational news he might finally squeeze out.
The others had the patience to wait, but Mu En did not. Seeing Xuan Zi's face grow increasingly purple, Mu En frowned.
"Speak!"
The emotions he had spent so long working up were shattered by that simple command from Mu En. In terms of prestige, Mu En's word in the Sea God Pavilion was absolute. When he lost his temper, even Xuan Zi had to meekly take it.
"M-Mu En, here's what happened..." Under everyone's faintly smiling gazes, Xuan Zi recounted how he had led the team into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts. When he reached the part about not accompanying the team, he had wanted to shed a little of his responsibility, but faced with Mu En's piercing eyes, he honestly admitted his mistake.
While Xuan Zi confessed in hopes of leniency, the other Senior Elders' hearts were tossed up and down.
Especially when they heard that Xuan Zi had left the team because he wanted a drink, running all the way outside the Star Dou Great Forest and leaving the Inner Court group to hunt Soul Beasts inside the forest by themselves, the Senior Elders' ominous premonitions reached their peak.
Sure enough, Xuan Zi's next words were, "They happened to encounter a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast while I was away."
Fucking