Yuan Linning was stunned.

She suppressed her bellyful of fire, but before she could vent it, Lu Changming harshly rebuked her. The look on her beautiful face grew increasingly unsightly.

But before she could respond, Lu Changming snorted coldly. “Fortunately, this didn’t lead to conflict. If it did, I wouldn’t let you off!”

Yuan Linning was so stifled that her face flushed red.

She was an Emperor! Since proving her Dao, almost no one had ever dared be rude to her. Even sectmates of greater seniority were as polite as could be.

She’d never have imagined that Lu Changming would rebuke her without the slightest politeness at a time like this!

When the old blind man and the Ninth Libationer saw this, they were stunned. They almost dared not believe their eyes.

Lu Changming was furious, and his tone was harsh. He pelted Yuan Linning right in the face with rebukes. They hadn’t anticipated this at all.

Su Yi watched coolly from the sidelines. He could already tell that Lu Changming was doing all this so he’d see it.

The way Su Yi saw it, Cui Jingyan alone wasn’t enough to make the third high elder respond so strongly.

In that case, there was no doubt about it: the “problem” was that master and ...