The old man felt thoroughly humiliated now.
No matter what, he was an elder of the sect. How could he let juniors like them criticize him?
The old man looked at Zhuang Mu.
"What about you? Never mind anything else. You should know what Ye Ningshuang's situation is. Look at what she's become! Aren't you going to do anything?"
Zhuang Mu frowned.
As for Ye Ningshuang, Zhuang Mu had actually considered and thought over this matter before.
But in the end, Zhuang Mu had chosen to let things take their course.
Because he no longer put much blind faith in the Grand Ancestor's prophecy.
Once he stopped blindly believing in it, Zhuang Mu felt much more clearheaded.
Now that his third martial uncle had brought up Ye Ningshuang, Zhuang Mu merely smiled faintly.
"What's wrong with Ye Ningshuang?"
The old man was speechless.
"What's wrong? If Ye Ningshuang weren't a disciple of our Divine Firmament Sword Sect, I honestly suspect people would call her a demon. How does she look anything like a person of heavenly mandate?"
Zhuang Mu was rather curious.
"Oh? Then what should a person of heavenly mandate be like? What you think she should be, or what you'd like her to be?"
"If everything has to go according to your wishes, is she a person of heavenly mandate or a puppet of heavenly mandate?"
"And what role are you playing in all this?"
Zhuang Mu was already being quite polite.
He hadn't outright said, "Who do you think you are?"
The old man grew furious.
"That's pure sophistry! But I just think this is wrong, and Ying Huaixu leading Ye Ningshuang astray like this is wrong too!"
The Scholar sighed.
"You think it's wrong? But Ye Ningshuang is already in the Sea of Qi Realm, and