"Smack!"
Bai Shengyi slapped Bai Murong directly, grabbed Bai Murong's hair, and pressed her to the ground.
"Who said anything about me? You dare to poison someone, but you don't dare to admit it?" Bai Shengyi's voice was chilling, her killing intent undisguised. "Do you think your petty schemes are unknown to everyone?"
"Ah!" Bai Murong screamed in agony, crying, "Shengyi, are you trying to kill me... Sister Li, help me quickly, she's going to kill me, mmm..."
Bai Shengyi sneered and pushed her head into the dirt.
Bai Murong, in order to convince Li Shiqing that she hadn't been living on Qianxiao Peak during this time, had never cleaned the courtyard. After Li Shiqing returned, she was too exhausted from healing and chatting with her to attend to such matters.
A foul, rotten smell wafted over. Bai Murong looked at the bird droppings on the ground, rolled her eyes, and fainted.
"Enough! Daoist friend Bai, if you don't let go of Murong, don't blame me for taking action." Li Shiqing could no longer bear to watch and shouted.
Even if Murong had poisoned someone, it might have been a momentary lapse in judgment. How could Shengyi humiliate her like this? Moreover, Murong was her elder sister!
"Heh!" Bai Shengyi sneered, "Li Shiqing, have you truly seen this person's true face to be protecting her like this?"
Li Shiqing's steps faltered slightly, but she immediately said, "Daoist friend Bai, this has nothing to do with you. I know Murong better than you do, and I know what kind of girl she is."
Murong was already pitiful enough. If even she couldn't protect Murong, couldn't protect such a weak girl, how could she talk about protecting the common people and helping the weak against the strong?
Li Shiqing didn't believe she was wrong. Seeing Bai Shengyi being stubborn and unreasonable, she drew her sword and lunged forward.
"Forgive me!"
"Fire!"
Bai Shengyi moved her lips, and the Ten Directions Netherfire directly melted the long sword in Li Shiqing's hand!
Li Shiqing's expression changed.
Bai Shengyi, with an indifferent expression, lifted Bai Murong and submerged her in water, saying coldly, "Since you've fainted, take this opportunity to die. It'll be less painful."
The pretending-to-be-fainted Bai Murong: !
"Mmm mmm mmm..." Bai Murong shook her head, struggling, and desperately clawed at Bai Shengyi's hands, but Bai Shengyi remained still.
The sensation of suffocation spread from her lungs, contorting Bai Murong's face in pain.
Bai Shengyi!
Bitch!
Li Shiqing, you useless woman, why aren't you helping me!
Li Shiqing, whom Bai Murong was cursing, was mobilizing her water spiritual power, diverting all the water from the缸 where Bai Murong was.
Bai Murong finally breathed a sigh of relief. She hated Bai Shengyi immensely, but her voice came out as a weak sob, "Bai Shengyi, even if you hate me, you can't just kill me without reason! You say I poisoned someone, do you have proof? Furthermore, this is the academy, how can you engage in private combat?"
Fearing that Bai Shengyi would twist her neck the next moment, she spoke rapidly.
Bai Shengyi was deliberately letting her speak.
She knew that people like Bai Murong wouldn't give up until they hit rock bottom.
Since that was the case, she would trample all her schemes into the mud, making her suffer day after day, living in unresignation.
Death, in fact, was too easy a way out.
"On the rim of the teacup in the courtyard, you added Soul Devouring Three Steps Drunk; in the teapot on the table, you put colorless and odorless Hydrotoxin; on the table, you placed Mimic Spirit Worms... Do I need to tell you more?" Bai Shengyi sneered.
Bai Murong's face turned ashen, like a ghost, whether from fear or defeat.
Li Shiqing was also shocked. Did... did Murong really do all this?
"You're going to say, how can I be sure it was you?"
Bai Shengyi stared coldly at Bai Murong, as if seeing into her heart. Her voice was low, carrying a chill colder than the night wind and sharper than frost and snow.
"Have you forgotten? Bai Murong, I am the rightful heir to the Bai family's Medicinal Codex. The things you learned from the Codex, wanting to use them against me, isn't that like showing off in front of a master craftsman?"
"No! Impossible!" Bai Murong retorted, her breathing rapid. "Grandfather always said I was the most talented in learning the Medicinal Codex. How could I be inferior to you, a cripple! Impossible, I don't believe it..."
Bai Shengyi said word by word, "This is the fact, Bai Murong, you are the cripple, you are indeed inferior to me!"
"Ahhh, no! I don't believe you! You're just lying to me!" Bai Murong cried out to the sky, her expression frantic.
Bai Shengyi's contemptuous voice became a nightmare that she could never escape.
"Ah!"
Bai Murong's dantian suddenly felt an intense pain, and the spiritual energy in her body dispersed uncontrollably. She was like a leaky rag doll, her realm collapsing from the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, to the third, the second... all the way down to below Qi Condensation.
"What did you do, mmm..." She opened her mouth to question Bai Shengyi, but Bai Shengyi shoved a pill into her mouth, which dissolved instantly.
Bai Shengyi sneered, "Although I really want to kill you, I don't want to dirty my hands. So, I crippled your dantian. How about that, surprised?"
"Bai Shengyi! You bitch! I..." Bai Murong opened her mouth to curse Bai Shengyi, but her body immediately felt like it was being twisted by knives. She thought of what Bai Shengyi had fed her and her eyes widened in terror, "What did you give me?"
"Guess?" Bai Shengyi hooked her lips. "Don't worry, the effect will be even better than your poisons."
Bai Murong looked at her in fear, wishing she could devour Bai Shengyi's flesh and drink her blood. How dare she! How dare she!
Was she not afraid of retribution!
"I'm sorry, my conscience is clear!"
It turned out that without realizing it, Li Shiqing had asked the question on Bai Murong's behalf.
"Junior Sister did the right thing. Trash like this deserves to be crippled." A cold female voice followed, it was Qian Ying.
She had received Bai Shengyi's message and rushed over. She appeared in the courtyard with a smile, but her gaze was extremely indifferent.
"Li Shiqing, do you know your mistake?"
Li Shiqing lowered her head, but her back was straight. "Venerable, may I ask what fault I have committed?"
She just wanted to help Murong.
Qian Ying's smile slightly receded, and she frowned. "You cannot distinguish between right and wrong, you privately allowed an outer disciple to enter the inner sect, nearly putting a fellow disciple in danger. Do you think you are not wrong?"
At this moment, Bai Shengyi had thrown Bai Murong to the ground and walked to Qian Ying's side, saying with a half-smile, "Of course she's not wrong. If she were wrong, wouldn't that mean her own Dao is wrong?"
"Li Shiqing, is your chosen path of guardianship meant to protect people like this?"
Bai Shengyi's voice was like thunder, resounding in Li Shiqing's mind.
Qian Ying glanced at her, tossed Bai Murong out of Qianxiao Peak, and yawned. She said to Bai Shengyi, "Junior Sister, I'm going back to my beauty sleep. Just call me if you need anything."
"Thank you, Senior Sister." Bai Shengyi smiled sincerely.
She had only briefly explained the situation to Qian Ying, and Qian Ying had rushed over immediately, unconditionally believing her and standing by her side. Such trust indeed made her very happy.
How could Qian Ying not see her little thoughts? She couldn't help but hug her and let out a hum, "Little girl, why do you have so many thoughts in your head?"
But she didn't blame her at all.