Everyone's eyes were focused on Mo Yao. Like most people, he had disheveled hair, his clothes were burnt into tatters, and his body was covered with burnt wounds. The edges of the wounds were a little white because they had been soaked in water.
Wei Huangan sneered, "Mo Yao, you old thief are really a fence-sitter. You turned against Fang Xusheng as soon as a new group of people joined. Who just admitted his fault to Fang Xusheng and cleared himself of his traitorous identity? Now that you know that the ancient demon clan has a way to escape from the Sin Hall and kill Fang Yun, are you not afraid of Xusheng anymore?"
Mo Yao's face flashed with embarrassment, and then he showed hesitation. He said, "I am just stating a fact. It has nothing to do with respect. I still respect Fang Xusheng, but this respect does not allow me to lie."
Lian Pingchao said, "What Master Mo said is true. I respect Fang Xusheng in my heart, but I am very disappointed in him. As a Xusheng, he was arrested with us. Besides feeling sorry, can it be said that there is something wrong with Fang Yun, the Xusheng?"
"Brother Pingchao, you are exaggerating. Even if we are against the Holy Academy, we cannot doubt the Virtual Saint! We can only say that he is a real Virtual Saint, but his strength is not worthy of his status!" Mo Yao said.
"I'm grateful for your advice, Brother Mo!" Lian Pingchao immediately agreed.
Yun Zhaochen glared at him and said, "Pingchao, I have been tolerant all along because of our friendship for many years and because we have entered the ruins of Dragon City together. We are all in prison now and should be in the same boat. Not only did you and Mo Yao not put aside your prejudice, but you took the initiative to provoke internal strife. I can't sit idly by! Lian Pingchao, let me ask you, are you willing to admit your mistakes to Fang Xusheng and promise that you will never point the pen at your own people in the Sin Palace?"
Lian Pingchao said angrily, "Zhaochen, you have some kind of decree, and you got some benefits from him, but why don't you think about me? We are both people who broke into the Sin Palace, and he got the Dragon Clan Inscription. You entered the garden and ate the longevity fruit, but what about me? The jade he gave me was broken! On the Sin Turtle Prison Carriage, you kept nagging that Fang Xusheng would never be caught by the Sin Turtle Prison Carriage, and he would definitely save us, definitely! What's going on now? He was actually locked up in the Sin Palace before us! He is not even as good as us! How can I expect him to save us?"
"You..." Yun Zhaochen didn't know how to refute for a moment.
Lian Pingchao was still furious, and continued, "Why don't I blame him instead of others? Because I am desperate now! As a dignified Void Saint, he should have led the human race to glory, but what about him? Can he lead us out of the Sin Hall? Can he lead us out of the Sin Palace? He can't! Where is his Dragon Devouring Vine? Where is his Wenxing Dragon Duke? Where are his treasures? Nothing! At this moment and here, he is no different from trash!"
"Brother Pingchao is right. Holding a position without doing any work is exactly what Fang Yun is talking about!" Tang Jianqiu said with hatred on his face.
"We are not attacking Fang Xu Sheng, we are just dissatisfied. Does this count as rebellion? How can we stop the people from speaking out?" Mo Yao said righteously.
Yun Zhaochen was so angry that he laughed and said, "Ridiculous! He is a virtual saint, but he is only a Hanlin. He is not even twenty years old yet. You elders are actually saying such rude words. It is absolutely ridiculous! When we get out of this place, I will discuss the way of sainthood with you one by one to see who has a firm mind and who has a strong courage!"
"Take me with you! I also want to see these people. How cruel they are! Lian Pingchao, if I'm not mistaken, you have actually been bribed by Mo Yao in secret, right? "Wei Huangan said.
"What nonsense! What nonsense!" Lian Pingchao's face flushed and he kept scolding.
Yun Zhaochen frowned and asked, "Brother Huang An, why do you say that? Did something happen before we came?"
Then Wei Huangan narrated what had happened before, from the time he met Fang Yun on the first floor until Yun Zhaochen, Lian Pingchao and others came in, explaining every detail.
Yun Zhaochen was furious and roared, "Lian Pingchao, is it you who sold Moyao's luck?"
"It will never be me! Although I don't like Fang Yun, I will never betray him. He is a virtual saint, how dare I betray him!" Lian Pingchao's face showed panic.
"When you betrayed him, you didn't even know he was a Xu Saint!" Yun Zhaochen said angrily.
"But I found out later!" Lian Pingchao argued.
Wei Huangan suddenly asked: "You mean to admit that you betrayed Fang Xusheng?"
"What nonsense! What nonsense!" Lian Pingchao became more and more angry.
Yun Zhaochen took a deep breath and said, "Pingchao, I'll ask you one last time, will you put aside your prejudices and work together?"
Lian Pingchao hesitated for a while and secretly looked at Mo Yao, who was once the number one scholar in the ancient land of Xuemang.
Mo Yao snorted coldly and said, "No one can stop the gossips of the world! Yun Zhaochen, you and Fang Yun are not King Li of Zhou, you can't let us look down on you!"
"Pingchao, I'm asking you." Yun Zhaochen looked at Lian Pingchao and said word by word.
The sin hall was quiet.
The Bear Demon King and the ancient demon kings watched the infighting among the Grand Scholars with great interest, and the ancient squid king even had a weird smile on his face.
Most of the Grand Secretaries looked at Lian Pingchao with dissatisfaction, and several Grand Secretaries from Shengyuan Continent even did not hide the contempt in their eyes.
Lian Pingchao's face was wrinkled like rubbed tree bark. He didn't dare to look directly at Yun Zhaochen and could only look at the ground.
"Lian Pingchao, you're a coward!" Wei Huangan sneered unceremoniously.
Lian Pingchao's face flushed again, and he looked at Yun Zhaochen and said, "What happens between Fang Yun and me is a matter between the two of us. How can you, Yun Zhaochen, interfere at will? Do you think you are the leader of the human race or the master of Blood Mang? Brother Mo Yao is right. Xu Sheng is wrong. Doesn't the Grand Secretary have the right to comment? I think so! I am not criticizing him, but just making a reasonable judgment. Why are you so aggressive? Are you the Grand Secretary of my Blood Mang Ancient Land, or a person from Shengyuan Continent? What you say about me, in fact, you are the one who betrayed my Blood Mang Ancient Land!"
"Well said!" Tang Jianqiu praised loudly.
"Brother Pingchao, I didn't expect you to be able to say such righteous words. When you haven't seen someone for three days, you should be looked at with new eyes!" Mo Yao praised.
Yun Zhaochen gritted his teeth, his gray hair floating in the water, and said slowly: "Okay! Okay! Okay! From today on, I, Yun Zhaochen, and you, Lian Pingchao, will sever our ties and sit at separate tables! You are no longer a friend of our team, you are expelled!"
"Yun Zhaochen! You have ruined my reputation as a writer. This feud is irreconcilable!" Lian Pingchao's hair and beard stood on end with anger. He was so furious that the chains on his body rattled.
All the university scholars present were stunned. They did not expect Yun Zhaochen to be so decisive.
To cut the robe and sever the friendship means to cut the mat and sit separately. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Guan Ning, who was only a scholar at the time, did not like the scholar Cai Xin's greed for power, so he cut the mat that the two of them were sitting on, completely breaking off their friendship.
Afterwards, the two took different paths.
Guan Ning specialized in studying the Book of Songs and the Book of History, becoming a great Confucian scholar and completing his career.
Hua Xin joined the eclectic school and became a great Confucian scholar and minister. He helped Cao Pi become emperor and accomplished his mission.
After reading the stories of the two people last year, Fang Yun smiled and nodded.
In the Shengyuan Continent, a noble but stubborn and pedantic person like Guan Ning can step onto the ladder of sainthood, and a pragmatic but power-hungry person like Hua Xin can also have a path to promotion. This is the fundamental reason why the human race is thriving.
The two cannot tolerate each other, but the holy way of heaven and earth can tolerate them! .
(To be continued.)