Inside Boundary-Suppressing Mountain, silence hung over the Azurefall Profound Gate's lounge.
After a long while passed without anyone speaking, Perfected One Qinghua finally could not help saying, "Is no one really going to do anything? This is getting more and more ridiculous. He's even tamed an exotic beast now. Is that really reasonable?"
"What's unreasonable about it?" Perfected One Nagiko said. "Isn't that his own ability? Why doesn't anyone else go tame an exotic beast?"
"That's true, but it really does seem rather unfair to the other contestants," Perfected One Feiguang said. "I think the best compromise would be for the organizers to remove the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python from the secret realm and compensate Yue Wen with fifty strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins."
"Compensate him?" Perfected One Qinghua grew rather agitated. "Shouldn't they fine him fifty strings? No, what he's done doesn't call for punishment. He should be shot! Eliminating him from the secret realm would be the right thing to do."
"Don't forget," Perfected One Nagiko scoffed, "if Yue Wen gets the death penalty, your disciple deserves at least life imprisonment."
At that reminder, Perfected One Qinghua's heart seized up again.
That little disciple he had raised and taught since childhood, so sweet and lovable, with excellent character and grades and not a single bad habit-how had he turned into a smiling criminal who poisoned people the instant he became involved with Yue Wen's Gang?
Although killing people outside Demon-Suppressing City was not against the law, locking people up in a compound to exploit their labor really did look far too sinister.
While they exchanged a few words, Perfected One Delong pushed the door open and walked in.
"How did it go?" All three immediately looked over nervously.
"The parties sat down together and had a calm, civil