“What?!”

The noise level within the hall spiked as everyone chattered to one another. They all felt unsure how to react. Whatever else could there be as important as the matter with elder Cheng? Especially if it had to do with a single trainee.

“One moment, father…are you saying it was the trainee that killed the intruders? All of them!?”

A single trainee guard killing the Soul Exalts and Soul King? It was a preposterous idea! No one would even entertain such a thought if not for Yao Tianji saying it himself… 

Yao Tianji nodded. “A few other trainees were watching. There’s no doubt about it.”

“But…how?” Yao Wuchen asked. “That trainee…is the one Wang Tong and Feiyun brought back the other time, isn’t he? The ‘amnesiac’...didn’t he ingest a dreamcalling pill?”

“That is the very same one.”

“What are you talking about? What outsider...