Monk Mingxin sneered. "If you didn't want any contact with Shen Bai, there were plenty of ways to avoid him. But you didn't. Did you really think I couldn't tell what you're planning?"
Xu Sheng Taoist fell silent, as if Monk Mingxin's words had struck true.
The dean of Xinhua Academy in Cangnan Dao was a man surnamed Hou.
Hearing the exchange, Dean Hou sensed the tension and stepped in to play peacemaker. "There's no need to be at each other's throats. Our goal is the same, so why must we fight amongst ourselves?"
"Daoist, why don't you tell us why you deliberately lured Shen Bai into this situation?"
With Dean Hou mediating, the atmosphere immediately relaxed.
Xu Sheng Taoist picked up a nearby teacup and took a sip. "From what I know," he said, "Shen Bai was going to enter the Molten Rock Forbidden Land anyway. Whether I guided him or not, he would have come."
