The atmosphere was extremely tense now.

If Liu Chuandao wasn't still around and nobody made the first move, all the elders would have surrounded Jiang Ning and bashed him up by now.

But now, Jiang Ning was still standing confidently where he was with his hands behind his back as he glanced at all the elders before him.

"Are you going to raise any objections to what I just said?"

Raise objections?

Of course not!

There was no way they could raise any objections or argue back.

Jiang Ning had not spent a long time in Qingshan Sect, but he seemed to know each person very well.

He knew their identities and the things they did, as well as many other matters that they had never told anybody, or allowed anybody to find out. And even if anyone knew about these things, they wouldn't have mentioned it at all.

And now, Jiang Ning had spilled all the beans in front of everyone.

All of them were red-faced, as if they had been caught red-handed doing something naughty.

"Do I still need to go on?" Jiang Ning looked at them. "All of you have contributed to the decline of Qingshan Sect!"

"And now, someone from outside the sect dared to infiltrate Qingshan Sect and killed one of yours, but you are able to take this lying down? How are you going to account for this to the rest of the sect?"

He sighed agitatedly and was furious. "Just because you're not the ones who died, it doesn't matter anymore?"

"What about the other disciples? What about all the disciples who are just like Luo Heng?"

"All of them have parents too, you know? You mean they deserve to die? You mean it's alright for others to kill them?"

"If you behave like this, who would dare to join Qingshan Sect? Which truly gifted person would dare to join the sect?

Jiang Ning's voice was ear deafening, and every word resounded loudly in their ears.

Everything he had said would soon reach the ears of the other disciples. All these words that represented the viewpoint of the disciples would definitely garner great support.

This matter did not only concern one Jiang Ning, and it wasn't as simple as one dead Luo Heng.

This was an important issue that involved all the disciples of Qingshan Sect. It affected whether their lives were respected and valued!

Liu Chuandao's expression changed a little. He suddenly realized that everything that Jiang Ning said had caught everyone's attention.

Nobody cared about who was trying to kill Jiang Ning anymore, and Jiang Ning himself knew that nobody cared about whether he lived or died anyway.

Even if he really got murdered, so what?

He probably wouldn't even get a sigh from these people.

So Jiang Ning took the chance to shift everyone's attention onto the disciples instead. If Su Yun were here, she would have applauded Jiang Ning for having the mind of an army commander. Controlling the crowd was the most powerful way of getting things done!

"Don't you dare spout nonsense!" The Senior Elder couldn't stand it anymore and shouted fiercely, "Qingshan Sect has always placed the grooming of disciples as one of our greatest priorities! We care a lot about their lives and their dignity!" "So it's alright to let an elite disciple like

Luo Heng to die for no reason?"

"We are not alright with that!" retorted the Senior Elder angrily. "We are investigating this matter! Mr He, aren't you already investigating it?"

He spun around to look at Mr He, who was secretly grinning away at how things were turning out. "What's happened to the investigation?"

Mr He had already said earlier that they didn't find any clues and their investigation had reached the Portico and the elders of the sect,

but the Senior Elder was obstructing the investigation.

"Senior Elder, our next step is to investigate the Portico and all the elders here," said Mr He with a straight face. "If you are not willing to be investigated, then we..." He looked like he was placed in a difficult position.

It was as if the final decision all lay in the hands of the Senior Elder.

If the Senior Elder continued to block the investigation, it meant that the Senior Elder was not valuing the lives and future of all the disciples of Qingshan Sect. Even the Senio Elder couldn't possibly dare to bear such a heavy responsibility! © 2024.