Shen Qing noticed Qi Nian's nervousness. She turned around and patted Qi Nian on the shoulder.
Qi Nian nodded, took a deep breath, and took out a storage bag labeled "Law Enforcement Hall".
After placing the storage bag on the ground, Qi Nian made two hand seals and murmured an incantation. The storage bag flashed with golden light, and to everyone's shock, twenty skeletons appeared out of thin air.
These skeletons were surrounded by a thick aura of demonic energy, and some soil still clung to the bones.
Some of the bones had been eroded by the demonic energy and were broken and scarred. It was impossible to tell when these bodies had died.
The sky - reaching demonic energy emanating from the skeletons startled everyone present, and they could no longer sit still.
True Lord Honghua's face changed drastically. He quickly asked, "Where did these skeletons come from? Why are they contaminated with such a thick demonic aura?"
Qi Nian explained, "The disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall searched Lin Yibai's courtyard on Worry - Free Peak as required. These skeletons were all dug out from under the flowerbed not far from her courtyard."
"These twenty can be pieced together. There are also some scattered and incomplete ones, which the Law Enforcement Hall disciples have stored separately."
There were even more! Everyone was greatly shocked.
When Lin Yibai saw these skeletons, her face turned pale.
Back then, she had saved Ji Chongming and brought him back to the Azure Cloud Sword Sect to recover from his injuries. However, she never expected that in order to recover quickly, Ji Chongming had brutally killed some outer - sect disciples and handyman disciples of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect.
She originally thought only a few people had died, but she never imagined that more than twenty people had lost their lives!
Although Lin Yibai managed to maintain her composure on the surface, her evasive eyes betrayed her inner panic.
Ji Chongming had actually hidden these skeletons in her flowerbed. Wasn't this setting her up?
He should have destroyed these skeletons to avoid being discovered. What could she do now?
Ji Chongming had caused this mess, but she had to clean it up. It was simply unfair.
Lin Yibai clenched her fists tightly. Her long fingernails dug into her palms. The pain brought her a moment of clarity.
"Although these skeletons were dug out from my flowerbed, Shen Qing has been taking care of the flowerbed all along. Maybe... it was Shen Qing who killed these people and then buried the skeletons in my flowerbed to frame me!"
Pei Xuanjing and the others looked at Lin Yibai with a hint of subtlety in their eyes. Everyone on Worry - Free Peak knew that Lin Yibai had insisted on creating this flowerbed to grow some ordinary flowers that were not suitable to be grown on the mountain.
These flowers were the flower seeds Lin Yibai had brought from the mortal world. They, as her senior brothers, often received flowers from Lin Yibai.
Back then, when they received the flowers, they felt sorry for Lin Yibai, thinking that she had put a great deal of effort into taking care of these ordinary flowers.
On the contrary, Shen Qing had never shown such care in such trivial matters.
But now Lin Yibai said that Shen Qing had taken care of the flowerbed most of the time. Did it mean that the flowers they had received before were actually planted by Shen Qing, but Lin Yibai had taken the credit?
Thinking of this, Pei Xuanjing began to feel a sense of disgust towards Lin Yibai.
Shen Chuyun was even more heart - broken. He liked green daisies. He had just casually mentioned it to Lin Yibai, and since then, fresh green daisies had been placed in his room every day.
He originally thought that Lin Yibai had taken special care of him. Now he realized that it was all Shen Qing who had done it!
What had his one - sided self - moving feelings been before?
There was not a single word of truth in Lin Yibai's mouth.
When Shen Qing first entered the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, he had distanced himself from her. Besides his own pride, it was also because of Lin Yibai's repeated persuasion.
If she hadn't said that Shen Qing was here to cling to him and would lower his status in True Lord Hengling's heart, he wouldn't have said those harsh words to Shen Qing at the beginning.
And for all the subsequent events, Lin Yibai had been involved.
If it weren't for Lin Yibai, his relationship with Shen Qing wouldn't have become what it was today!
The once - innocent and beautiful face of Lin Yibai now looked a bit hideous in Shen Chuyun's eyes.
No matter how he looked at it, he found Lin Yibai's current act of defending herself extremely disgusting.
Immortal Huiyan said playfully, "There is actually such a hidden story. If the flowerbed has always been taken care of by Shen Qing, then Shen Qing is still highly suspected."
Hearing this, Lin Yibai secretly let out a sigh of relief.
The system had not lied to her. Immortal Huiyan was here to help her!
As long as she could come up with a few more excuses, it would be easy to turn the situation around, wouldn't it?
Thinking of this, Lin Yibai gradually calmed down.
She pinched her thigh hard and put on a desolate and aggrieved expression. "I know that Junior Sister Shen has never liked me. So she set up these vicious schemes to frame me a long time ago. But what have I done wrong?"
She looked so miserable, as if she had really suffered a great deal of injustice.
Shen Qing watched Lin Yibai's act coldly. She couldn't help but sigh at Lin Yibai's ability to turn black into white and white into black. It was truly terrifying.
True Lord Honghua could tell at a glance who was lying. Looking at Lin Yibai's expression of pretending to be calm as if the whole world owed her, he felt a surge of anger.
Identity tags had been attached to these skeletons. Whether they were outer - sect disciples or handyman disciples, their identities were clearly written.
Although these disciples were not highly talented, they were all the disciples he had taught and approved to enter the sect.
As the sect master, he felt ashamed that someone had secretly harmed the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect right under his nose, and he had been completely unaware. He was really derelict in his duty as the sect master.
Now the murderer showed no sign of repentance in the face of these skeletons. Instead, she was being sharp - tongued and trying to slander others.
Such a disciple did not deserve to stay in the Azure Cloud Sword Sect!
"Traitor! You're talking nonsense!"
True Lord Honghua released his pressure and pressed Lin Yibai hard to the ground. Cracks appeared on the cold floor, and the sound of bone - cracking on Lin Yibai's knees was even louder than True Lord Yaoyue's voice.
True Lord Hengling had been worried about Lin Yibai. Seeing True Lord Honghua take action, he quickly stepped forward to disperse the pressure on Lin Yibai.
But as soon as he dispersed it, True Lord Honghua summoned the Immortal - Binding Chain and tied Lin Yibai up tightly. The chain kept tightening, and the sound of bone - cracking gradually came from the places where the chain was tied.
True Lord Hengling's face darkened. He turned to True Lord Honghua and shouted angrily, "The matter has not been investigated clearly yet. Why are you in such a hurry to impose punishment? Aren't you afraid of being criticized?"
True Lord Honghua was almost driven crazy by this master - disciple pair. One was as if he had no brains and was easily bewitched by his disciple, while the other seemed to have a thousand schemes and was ruining the people around her.
If they weren't the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, True Lord Honghua would have just slapped them to death. But since they were the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, their disgrace would also be the disgrace of the sect!
"Hengling, if you're not satisfied with my actions, just take your beloved disciples and leave the Azure Cloud Sword Sect right away. I won't stop you!"