"Stop spouting nonsense — you attacked me first," Di Jiuzhou retorted.
"That's right, that stutterer struck first, and that Chu Feng even killed Senior Brother Ma," the disciples of the Superior Lord Manor added with aggrieved expressions.
"I never said I… I didn't strike first, but everything I said is the truth. If… if you don't believe me, go ask them — they all saw it with their own eyes," Wang Qiang said, pointing at the onlookers.
"Even if what you say is true, it's also true that Chu Feng killed Senior Brother Ma."
"Manor Lord, you must avenge Senior Brother Ma and seek justice for us!" the disciples of the Superior Lord Manor pleaded desperately, acting as though they were the real victims — their shamelessness truly knew no bounds.
"Silence, all of you!" But at that moment, the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor turned around and roared at his own disciples.
At that furious shout, the disciples of the Superior Lord Manor were struck dumb with confusion.
They had all assumed that once the Manor Lord appeared, someone would finally stand up for them. Yet they never expected that their Manor Lord, rather than immediately turning on Chu Feng, was actually directing his fury at them.
What on earth was going on?
However, while the Superior Lord Manor disciples stood there bewildered, the Manor Lord was already cursing internally.
As Di Jiuzhou's Master, he knew full well what kind of temperament Di Jiuzhou and the rest had. He didn't doubt a single word of what Wang Qiang had said — he knew perfectly well that Di Jiuzhou and his lot were absolutely capable of pulling something like that.
So he didn't care in the slightest who was right and who was wrong. He had appeared precisely to back up Di Jiuzhou and the other disciples of his Superior Lord Manor.
But here was the problem…
This wasn't his real body at all — it was nothing more than a wisp of remnant soul. Although his aura looked impressive enough, he couldn't actually deal any real damage.
The pity was that these idiot disciples of his couldn't tell the difference and still expected him to take charge, still putting on their pitiful act over there.
What frustrated him the most was that while his own disciples hadn't caught on, Chu Feng and that Wang Qiang seemed to have seen through him already.
"Young friend, may I ask your honorable name?" Under the circumstances, the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor had no choice but to ask Wang Qiang politely.
This question from the Manor Lord not only shocked the disciples of the Superior Lord Manor but also left the onlookers even more bewildered.
What was going on? The other side had killed the Manor Lord's disciples, so why wasn't the Manor Lord striking them down immediately? Why was he being so courteous?
Having no idea what was really happening, they simply couldn't understand.
"My… my name doesn't change when I stand, and it doesn't change when I sit — I am Wang Qiang," Wang Qiang replied.
"Young friend Wang Qiang, young friend Chu Feng — the fault earlier lay with my Superior Lord Manor's disciples, but it is also true that young friend Chu Feng did kill one of our disciples."
"Great as heaven and earth may be, a human life is greater. However, since it was our Manor that was in the wrong first, we shall let the matter drop. Let this be the end of it. What do you say?" the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor said.
"Drop it? He actually wants to drop it?"
"Heavens — the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor is suing for peace on his own initiative?"
Hearing this, the onlookers were even more stunned, and whispers began rippling through the crowd.
"Drop it? Heh…" But just as everyone was puzzling over the situation, Chu Feng let out a laugh — his smile dripping with mockery.
"Young friend Chu Feng, regardless of what happened, you did kill a disciple of my Manor. Surely you wouldn't be dissatisfied if we simply let it go?"
The Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor was, after all, the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor. Even when suing for peace, he couldn't appear too servile. Seeing that Chu Feng didn't know when to accept a good thing, and wanting to preserve his image, a trace of displeasure finally surfaced on his otherwise smiling face.
"If your disciple hadn't been outmatched by me —"
"If you weren't merely a wisp of remnant soul right now, devoid of any real strength —"
"Would you really let it go?"
"At the end of the day, you're only using this tactic to preserve your disciple's life."
"And if I let it go today, would you truly let the matter rest afterward?" Chu Feng said with a cold smile. He didn't believe the Manor Lord for a second, nor did he have any intention of letting bygones be bygones.
"What? He's only a remnant soul?"
"No wonder — no wonder the Manor Lord of the Superior Lord Manor didn't strike directly at Chu Feng and that stutterer. He's nothing but a remnant soul, completely incapable of punishing the two of them."
After hearing Chu Feng's words, the onlookers finally realized the truth.