After Shen Chuyun rescued the people, he fell off his sword to the ground.
His cultivation instantly regressed to the mid - Golden Core stage. It was as if his reaching the God Transformation stage just now had been a dream for everyone.
Shen Chuyun seemed to have just woken up from a great dream. His muddled mind suddenly cleared up.
How could he have suddenly reached the God Transformation realm?!
Just now, he could clearly feel how powerful the power of the God Transformation stage was. But just as he was about to indulge in this power, the dream suddenly ended, and he had slumped onto the cold ground.
The silence among the crowd was deafening. Shen Qing raised her eyebrows and asked Ling Zhou, "Master, what about the black mist?"
"It has dispersed..."
Shen Chuyun looked up, about to say something, but met the inquisitive gazes of his disciples.
He frowned and said coldly, "Why are you all looking at me like this?"
The disciples glanced at each other but remained silent.
Pei Xuanjing and He Yu had just escaped death. They were sitting on the ground, gasping for breath, and their eyes also showed the same inquisitive look.
This kind of gaze made Shen Chuyun extremely uncomfortable. He could only look at Pei Xuanjing for help.
"Senior Brother Pei, just now... I was saving you all. I saved you..."
Shen Chuyun didn't know what else to say. He could only keep emphasizing that he had saved them.
Shen Qing spoke up, "It was all the disciples who saved everyone together. Without them, you would have fallen long ago."
"However, Senior Brother Shen, what's going on with your cultivation? Could it be that... you've practiced demonic arts?"
"Shen Qing, what are you talking nonsense about?!"
Shen Qing shrugged. She was just returning the same words to him. Why couldn't he take it?
She had repaired her Dao foundation in the small space. After coming out, she was slandered by Shen Chuyun for practicing demonic arts, and the matter was even taken to the Law Enforcement Hall.
If it weren't for Elder Fei Yun being fair, Shen Qing would have suffered.
Seeing Shen Chuyun's helplessness, Shen Qing felt elated again.
It was really easy to spread rumors.
Pei Xuanjing finally managed to catch his breath. With the help of others, he slowly stood up.
He looked back at Shen Qing, his eyes full of confusion.
In the swamp, he had heard all their conversations. He could clearly feel Shen Qing's passivity when rescuing them.
Moreover, it seemed that she was deliberately delaying time.
Although Pei Xuanjing's attitude towards Shen Qing had changed because of what Shen Qing had done to Lin Yibai in the secret realm, he really couldn't understand how Shen Qing could become so bad in such a short time. Or was this really Shen Qing's true nature?
At the critical moment of life and death, Shen Qing actually ignored their safety!
As for Shen Chuyun, Pei Xuanjing believed that he must have taken some secret pills or his talent had suddenly exploded.
Anyway, there were no signs of Shen Chuyun turning demonic. He was their savior.
He, Pei Xuanjing, had always been fair!
"Shen Qing, Junior Brother Shen saved us. How could you slander him like this? As for you, you've been standing by and saying sarcastic remarks. Is this how you treat your fellow disciples?"
"I thought the matter of Junior Sister Bai would make you reflect on yourself, but I didn't expect you to get even worse and become so... vicious!"
Pei Xuanjing's lecture made Shen Qing extremely annoyed.
Shen Chuyun also followed Pei Xuanjing's words, "Senior Brother Pei, Shen Qing's behavior has become more and more dangerous. I kindly accompanied her on the training, but she let me be beaten by rogue cultivators and even used explosives on me. Just now, she hit me in front of everyone."
"All my injuries are thanks to Shen Qing!"
Pei Xuanjing believed Shen Chuyun's words. The disappointment in his eyes grew deeper.
"Shen Qing, you have a vicious heart and ignore the lives of your fellow disciples. I must return to the sect and ask the master to punish you severely!"
Pei Xuanjing had already convicted Shen Qing in his heart. He just thought that Shen Qing must not have received enough punishment, which was why she was so muddled.
As the eldest senior brother, he had to make his junior brothers and sisters abide by the rules.
Shen Qing sneered, "Senior Brother Pei, now you can't even call me junior sister?"
"You keep saying that I'm guilty, just because I didn't save you. But do you know that if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been so easily saved by Shen Chuyun."
"Shen Chuyun was willing to gamble the lives of other disciples to save you all. You choose to ignore this. You're really fair and just!"
Shen Qing's words made Pei Xuanjing suddenly remember that before Shen Qing appeared, no one could do anything about the Ghost - Entangling Vine. It was only after Shen Qing showed up that the vine returned to its normal size...
He Yu obviously also thought of this. He suddenly stood up and shouted loudly, "Shen Qing, I've been suspicious of you. Why does this Ghost - Entangling Vine seem to have been tampered with? As soon as you came, it became normal!"
"Did you do something to this vine on purpose to lead us into this trap and harm us? How vicious you are!"
The surrounding disciples were reminded by He Yu's words and also remembered the abnormality of the Ghost - Entangling Vine.
Shen Qing was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, while so many of them at the Golden Core stage couldn't deal with this vine. But Shen Qing could...
In just a few words, the doubts among the crowd resurfaced.
Those familiar, unfriendly gazes gathered on Shen Qing again.
It was always like this...
Every time it was like this...
No matter what she did, others would speculate about her with the greatest malice.
Shen Qing suddenly felt extremely tired. She thought that if she had known this, she should have just passed by...
Were these people really worth saving...
"Junior Sister Shen wouldn't do such a thing!"
A figure rushed over and stood in front of Shen Qing.
It was the female disciple who had been humiliated by Shen Chuyun and had her tears wiped away by Shen Qing.
She turned around and looked at Shen Qing firmly. The full trust in her eyes gave Shen Qing's confused heart a glimmer of direction.
"Just now, we were all trapped by the Ghost - Entangling Vine. It was Junior Sister Shen who saved us. If Junior Sister Shen had tampered with the vine, why didn't Senior Brother Shen, who claimed to have been following Junior Sister Shen all the time, notice it!"
"If it was really Junior Sister Shen who did it, then isn't Senior Brother Shen, who was with Junior Sister Shen, also a suspect?"
The female disciple's fierce questioning left Pei Xuanjing and He Yu speechless.
After all, they had no evidence. They were just making inferences. But in the past, wasn't this how they treated Shen Qing? And no one would come out to defend Shen Qing...
Were they wrong?
Pei Xuanjing was confused for a moment. But then the scene of Junior Sister Bai seriously injured suddenly appeared in his mind, and that momentary confusion turned into determination.
He was right. It was Shen Qing who was wrong!
"Even if Shen Qing didn't tamper with it, the fact that she stood by indifferently is undeniable. Am I wrong about her? Just these two points are enough for her to be punished."
"Humph!" The female disciple was so angry that she laughed. Facing Pei Xuanjing's unreasonableness, she already felt powerless and aggrieved for Shen Qing. "What Senior Brother Pei said really broadens my horizons!"
"So! You just have to force Shen Qing to use her life to save yours, don't you?!!"
"All you want is for Shen Qing to die so that you can live, right?!!"