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Chapter 148: Privilege
"Senior Sister Yun, do you mean Lu Lei and the others are still on the run and haven't been arrested yet?" Chen Beiwu asked tentatively.
If that really was the case, he decided to stay in the sect in seclusion for a while, lest the three Foundation Establishment cultivators target him for revenge.
"How could that be?" Yun Yishu gave Chen Beiwu a strange look.
"It would actually be easier if they'd escaped. The problem is that all three of them are dead. Only Yu Pan is still alive. Otherwise, the Justice Hall wouldn't have been unable to obtain the crucial evidence."
Were they silenced? Chen Beiwu's heart sank.
When interests were at stake, Foundation Establishment cultivators were nothing more than ants the sect's higher-ups could crush at will.
No wonder Senior Sister Yun had reminded him earlier that he would be in no danger as long as he stayed within the sect.
Outside the sect, however, was another matter entirely.
At that thought, Chen Beiwu took a deep breath and asked, "Is there no other way?"
Sitting around waiting to die wasn't in his nature.
If possible, he would rather strike first and root out every enemy hiding within the sect.
"It's not that there's no way. It depends on whether the sect's higher-ups are willing to steel themselves and cut away their own flesh." Yun Yishu glanced at Chen Beiwu and spoke frankly about the Mirror Moon Sect's current failings.
"One generation plants the trees, and the next enjoys their shade. The exchange of favors within the Mirror Moon Sect has already become a system. Most well-connected second-generation cultivators lie back on their forebears' records of merit, enjoying fine food and drink. They even embezzle sect resources, forming circles of their own. And what