Chapter 166 Poisoning?
"Yun Xiao, there’s no use in denying it," sneered Xuan Zhi. "Bi Luo and I saw with our own eyes how you murdered Guan Hu. Even if you appeal to the Elders, you won’t escape the crime of killing a fellow Sect member!"
Xuan Zhi’s face lit up with a cold smile of satisfaction—the first since he’d known Yun Xiao—it was usually Yun Xiao who made him end up with a dusty and humiliated face.
"Fine then, let’s bring this matter to the Elders and let them decide how it should be judged."
However, as Xuan Zhi’s voice fell, Yun Xiao’s eyes lit up. He seized the opportunity to speak since he knew the Sect Elders, including those from the Jade Pot Sect, were not unreasonable. There might be a glimmer of hope then.
Of course, Yun Xiao was not counting on Fu Du or other members from the Poison Vein. That old geezer would love nothing more than to see him fall into worse troubles only to be used as a guinea pig for poison trials again. What Yun Xiao was really banking on was the favorably impressionable Great Elder, Lu Zhan.
Yun Xiao believed that after his recent rescue of Song Tian, the Great Elder must have developed some interest in him. Knowing Lu Zhan’s personality, he didn’t seem like one who couldn’t differentiate right from wrong.
The incident today—the so-called "act of violence" that Xuan Zhi and Bi Luo claimed to have witnessed—could easily be scrutinized to reveal the actual truth if examined carefully. After all, the peculiar death of Guan Hu, bleeding from all orifices, was definitely caused by severe poisoning.
Hearing Yun Xiao’s statements, Xuan Zhi was momentarily stunned, but then he heard Bi Luo next to him sneer, "Such a trivial matter, why bother the Elders? As a senior brother, I can decide this myself!"
It seemed Bi Luo wasn’t foolish either; such an obvious frame-up would hardly fool the Elders, so he wouldn’t risk it.
In Bi Luo’s eyes, these conflicts among Outer Disciples were indeed minor issues usually handled by Inner Sect Disciples like him.