Bamboo Mound

"Although I don't know why Senior Brother Jingtian always thinks Junior Sister is being unreasonable."

Liu Ruyan knew that her actions were useless to Liu Jingtian, but she managed to steer the others around her to her side.

So he pretended to be puzzled but looked firmly toward Liu Jingtian's side and said:

“Junior sister has ample evidence to prove that this person’s identity is suspicious. He is very likely an infiltrator who broke into our sect and stole the elder’s identity jade token!”

Meanwhile, the outer disciples surrounding her, though somewhat intimidated by Liu Jingtian's aura, still spoke up in agreement with Liu Ruyan's words.

Seeing this, Liu Jingtian glanced at Liu Ruyue, frowned slightly, and then looked at Ning Chang with a scrutinizing look in his eyes.

His eyes were deep and sharp, as if they could see through people's hearts, but Ning Chang saw only silence and hesitation in them.

They didn't even feel the slightest bit of the imposing aura they had imagined.

"Liu Ruyan, isn't it too hasty to conclude that he is an illegal immigrant based on mere guesswork?" Liu Jingtian's voice carried a hint of dissatisfaction.

"And your so-called sufficient evidence is just based on arbitrarily slandering the names of your fellow disciples?"

Liu Ruyan hurriedly defended herself, saying, "Senior brother, I am not without reason!"

Medicine King Valley has no elders at the sixth level of the Spirit Platform realm, yet he possesses such an identity jade token. Isn't that enough to explain the situation?

Liu Jingtian shook his head slightly. "That's not necessarily true. From what I've heard from my master, just yesterday, a new elder was added to the sect. Only the existing elders received the news."

Liu Ruyan was speechless for a moment, but she disagreed and remained convinced of her own judgment.

"Even so, the elder must be in the fetal heart stage, not this thief in front of us!"

At this moment, Ning Chang's heart stirred. With such a senior brother coming, even if he couldn't directly prove himself, it was possible that he would call the elders, or Wang Yi and Dan Tu!

Ning Chang had only just remembered the two of them and realized the shortcomings of the Hidden Knowledge Stone!

That is, under the impact of the information in the Hidden Knowledge Stone, the memories that originally existed in the mind will be affected!

He remembered Wang Yi and Dan Tu, but what about the others he hadn't realized?

He couldn't recall it by forcing himself to, but he wouldn't give up using the Hidden Knowledge Stone because of that.

We can't give up picking up the watermelon just because we're going to lose a sesame seed. Besides, these fragmented memories and the people we know aren't even sesame seeds to him.

If you move to another place, you'll never see them again, so just forget about them!

Just as he was about to temporarily place himself in the position of an ordinary disciple and ask Senior Brother Jingtian to summon any elder or one of Wang Yi or Dan Tu, another figure fell from mid-air.

He was dressed in a green-blue gradient robe, similar in style to Liu Jingtian's robe, exuding an aura like a gentle spring breeze, but his cultivation and imposing presence were much weaker than when Liu Jingtian first arrived.

"Why are you here?" Liu Jingtian finally revealed his approachable demeanor and asked the visitor.

"I sensed my brother's presence as I passed by, so I descended to take a look."

"What happened here?" He scanned the crowd, his gaze lingering for a moment on the two strange beasts and Ning Chang.

Then he met Liu Ruyan's smiling gaze.

"Brother Ge Shu!"

"Junior Sister Ruyue!"

Liu Geshu stepped in front of Liu Ruyue and gently stroked the top of Liu Ruyue's head.

"Junior Sister Ruyue is here too. Can you tell me what happened here?"

A hint of smugness flashed in Liu Ruyan's eyes. She tilted her head slightly and looked at Liu Geshu, saying, "Senior Brother Geshu, this person who claims to be an elder of my Medicine King Valley is very suspicious."

“He only has the cultivation level of the sixth stage of the Spirit Platform Realm, yet he holds an elder’s jade token. Moreover, our Medicine King Valley has never had an elder with such cultivation level before.”

"But just as I was about to capture him, Senior Brother Jingtian suddenly appeared and tried to stop me in every way possible."

Liu Geshu frowned slightly, looking at Ning Chang with a scrutinizing gaze.

Ning Chang sighed inwardly. He had thought that Senior Brother Jing Tian could bring a turning point, but unexpectedly, another Senior Brother Ge Shu, whose situation was unclear, appeared.

Judging from his relationship with Liu Ruyan, if Senior Brother Jingtian hadn't intervened, he would have been at Liu Ruyan's mercy!

Just after Liu Ruyan finished speaking, Liu Jingtian said to Liu Geshu, "Geshu, things are not that simple. I just learned from my master that a new elder was added to the sect yesterday, but the news was only passed on among the existing elders, and we did not know about it."

Liu Geshu shook his head slightly and retorted, "Senior Brother Geshu, even if there is a new elder, he could not possibly have such cultivation. There must be something fishy about this."

"Moreover, most of the elders in the sect have already been summoned away, which is most likely related to the new elder. At this moment, the new elder must be with the other elders and will not be wandering around here. He even took out two exotic beasts to exchange for merit points!"

“Since you think so too, then let’s ask an elder to judge.” After saying that, Liu Jingtian’s lips moved a few times, and he glanced into the distance.

Among all the elders he had met, the flowing patterns on their identity jade tablets were exactly the same, with no discrepancies.

In fact, when it comes to flowing rhythm, its form of expression is similar to that of spiritual power, both being divided into intensity and capacity.

The jade tablet before us has a flow intensity almost identical to that of the sect leader's jade tablet, but its capacity is much smaller, though still slightly larger than that of the elder's jade tablet!

The deduction is that the sect leader casually withdrew some of the flowing energy and then bestowed the jade tablet upon the sect leader!

As for counterfeiting, he had not considered that possibility.

Because the elders of the Registration Department had told him that the Registration Department did not have any techniques for injecting the flow of the sect leader's strength!

As for the actions of the other two sects, those decisions also need to be made by the elders, and cannot be decided arbitrarily by the disciples.

But before that, he still needed to confirm what the person in front of him was saying.

"How did you obtain this identity jade token?"

He stared at Ning Chang and asked in a suppressed voice.

"I hope you can answer truthfully."

Seeing this, Liu Ruyan felt unwilling and secretly gave a wink to the outer disciple beside her.

The disciples understood, and one of them suddenly shouted, "He might be stalling for time so he can escape, or he might have accomplices nearby!"

This shout caused a stir in the room again.

Liu Jingtian frowned and scolded, "Stop talking nonsense! Before things are clear, you must not make any wild guesses."

Liu Geshu also shook his head slightly, somewhat dissatisfied with the recklessness of these outer disciples.

Liu Ruyan's expression also froze.

She had hoped her sycophant would chime in, giving her a way out, saying that she was just doing her job and hadn't received any prior notice.