A useless person with five spiritual roots? I sacrificed the proud daughter of heaven.

"Everyone in the sect knows that Senior Sister Qingqing and Senior Sister Sheng are at odds. My senior brother and I always give way to each other out of our kinship, but Senior Sister Sheng's attacks are deadly. I suppose that's why Senior Sister Qingqing was seriously injured and died."

After Zhao Yanran finished speaking, she looked at the sect leader with grief: "Sect leader, do you know why the sword wound on my arm won't heal? And why my senior sister died? It's because the poison she used was the Azure Grass!"

"what!"

Xuanxiao stood up in shock, then suddenly remembered something and slowly sat down again.

“Master, the Azure Grass is extremely poisonous. Fortunately, you gave me a Grade 9 antidote pill earlier. My senior brother and I each took half of it, which barely cured us. However, the scar will never disappear.”

Zhao Yanran's eyes were brimming with tears as she looked at Xuanxiao with a pitiful expression.

"Disciple thanks Master for saving my life."

Chu Heng also stepped forward at the opportune moment, revealing a wound similar to Zhao Yanran's.

Xuanxiao frowned, looking at Shenghe with displeasure: "Now what do you have to say?"

"Azure Grass?" Sheng He spread his hands, his eyes full of confusion. "What did Junior Sister Zhao say about Azure Grass?"

"What is the Azure Grass? This disciple has never heard of it."

The disciples below looked at each other, bewildered. They had never heard of Biluo Grass before.

The elders sitting at the head of the table exchanged glances. They had heard of the Azure Grass, but it was extremely rare. They had heard that it grew in the far north and had not been seen for many years, so it was normal for these disciples not to know about it.

Zhao Yanran, however, pointed at Sheng He with her head held high and said confidently, "You must have the Azure Grass on you, Senior Sister Sheng. Do you dare let me search you?"

"No body search!"

Sheng He quickly covered his storage bag: "Why are you searching me? What right do you have to search me?"

Seeing this, Zhao Yanran became even more certain and sneered, "Sect Master, Master, she must have something to hide, otherwise why wouldn't she dare to let me search her?"

Sheng He stood ramrod straight: "We are of the same generation, and I am your senior sister. You casually mentioned that you would search my body. Then tomorrow, may I take the opportunity to slander other fellow disciples and search their bodies?"

"Sect Master, Shenghe is unwilling to do such a humiliating thing."

"Whether it's unwillingness or fear, only Senior Sister Sheng knows the truth!"

Sheng He bit her lip, as if she had suffered a great humiliation. After a long while, she slowly raised her head and looked firmly at the sect leader.

"Sect Master, I have never met Senior Sister Xu. Fellow Daoist Song and the two senior sisters can all testify for me. I really don't know what I did wrong to displease Junior Sister Zhao, who would pin the crime of harming a fellow disciple on me."

"Today, in order to prove our innocence, we request that the elders of the Discipline Department personally search us. However, to be fair, we also request that Junior Sister Zhao and Senior Brother Chu be searched together."

The sect leader's face was ashen. If word got out that the Qingyun Sect elders had searched their disciples in front of everyone, what face would the Qingyun Sect have left?

But Zhao Yanran wouldn't let it go, and Xuanxiao doted on his youngest disciple the most.

Xuanxiao is the face of the Qingyun Sect, and even the sect leader has to give Xuanxiao Immortal Venerable some face.

The sect leader sighed inwardly and gave the elder of the Discipline Department a look.

The elder of the Discipline Department immediately stepped forward, and Sheng He unhesitatingly removed the storage bag and storage ring, unsealed them, and handed them to the elder of the Discipline Department.

The elder of the Discipline Department opened the storage bag, which was full of crystals of various colors. He calmly moved the crystals aside, only to find that the storage bag contained nothing but crystals.

The elder picked up the storage ring again and carefully examined every corner before finally returning the storage bag and storage ring to Sheng He.

"how?"

The elder shook his head: "Sect Master, there is no Azure Grass, nor anything else suspicious."

Zhao Yanran curled her lips into a cold smile: "Elder, we haven't checked her yet! Maybe she's hidden something in her sleeve!"

"Junior sister, do you have to be so aggressive?"

Sheng He looked heartbroken: "We're all from the same sect, we'll see each other all the time..."

Before Sheng He could finish speaking, Zhao Yanran stepped forward and ripped open the sleeve of Sheng He's right arm: "Sect Leader, look, the item is right there..."

"How could there be no one?" Zhao Yanran touched Sheng He's sleeves in disbelief, even pressing on his waist, and murmured, "It's impossible, I clearly saw Senior Brother Chu with my own eyes..."

Sheng He lowered her head, looked at the dejected Zhao Yanran in front of her, and smiled lightly: "It's nothing, Junior Sister Yanran, you seem very disappointed."

"But Junior Sister Yanran, since we didn't find anything, can you let me go now?"

Sheng He took a step back, looked up at the elders of the Discipline Department, bowed and said, "Three elders, you should have searched my body just now. Shouldn't it be Junior Sister Zhao and Senior Brother Chu's turn now?"

Zhao Yanran disdainfully untied her storage bag: "Search if you want, I'm innocent and will never..."

"Sect Master, we've found it!"

The elder of the Discipline Department took a jade pendant from Chu Heng's sleeve and handed it to the sect leader.

The sect leader's pupils constricted the moment he saw the jade pendant: "This is... Qingqing's twin pendants!"

"Chu Heng! How did you come to have this twin pendant!"

Chu Heng's eyes widened in shock. He looked at Zhao Yanran, then at Xuanxiao Immortal Venerable, and finally his gaze swept around the hall before returning to the twin pendants.

"Sect Master, I...I don't know! I've never seen this jade pendant before, and I don't know how it ended up on me!"

Zhao Yanran stared in astonishment at the twin pendants. After boarding the flying boat, in order to frame Sheng He for Xu Qingqing's death, she deliberately changed her storage bag, leaving only the twin pendants that Xu Qingqing never parted with.

Afterwards, she lit the incense to calm the soul and saw Chu Heng stuff the twin pendants into Sheng He's sleeve. But now, how did the twin pendants end up with Chu Heng?

Zhao Yanran felt a pang of unease; things seemed to be heading in the worst possible direction. She quickly pleaded, "Sect Master, Senior Brother must have been framed!"

"Oh?" Sheng He sneered. "So what Senior Brother Chu and Junior Sister Zhao mean is that I injured Senior Sister Xu, Junior Sister Zhao, and Senior Brother Chu, and then, right in front of you, I forced Senior Sister Xu's twin pendants onto Senior Brother Chu, and none of you noticed?"

Chu Heng immediately knelt on the ground, looking pleadingly at Xuanxiao Immortal Venerable: "Master, I don't know, I really don't know why this jade pendant appeared on me. I've never seen Xu..."

"hiss!"

"what!"

A faint fragrance seemed to waft through the air again. Chu Heng's head throbbed with pain, and he collapsed to the ground, howling in agony.

Zhao Yanran hurriedly knelt down as well: "Master, Sect Master, I saw all of this with my own eyes. Senior Brother must have been wronged!"