Chapter 165: Humiliation (2)

"IT WASN'T JUST ME!"

Mu Tianyang scrambled to his feet. His hair was completely disheveled, his silver-threaded robes stained with the dust of the floor. He looked up at Patriarch Yun, his face twisted into a mask of cornered desperation.

Patriarch Yun stood up, his terrifying Peak Nascent Soul aura flaring with lethal intent. "Silence, you disgrace! You have humiliated our name! You will return to the sect and face the lightning whips!"

"No! Ancestor, you must listen to me!" Mu Tianyang shrieked, entirely abandoning whatever shred of dignity he had left. He refused to be the only one to burn. If he was going down, he was dragging his co-conspirator into the abyss with him.

Mu Tianyang spun around, extending a trembling, accusatory finger toward the eastern terraced seating, aiming directly at the mass of minor nobles and clan representatives.