Qi Xiu recalled the time he had been hunted by the Yi Family with a bounty on his head, and said casually, "Not long after I descended the mountain for practical training, I ran into Yin Kuang and seven other disciples. Everyone was a bit tight on money and couldn't find a way to make a quick buck, and hearing that there was an ancient tomb from a previous dynasty nearby, the lot of us decided to go explore it together. Who would have thought there would be a Demonic Beast inside the tomb? They used me as bait, but I devised a way to escape. The Demonic Beast mauled them instead, and after crawling out of the tomb, they came after me. Once they caught up, they tried to kill me. In my panic, I instinctively unleashed the Gluttonous Art, absorbing the spiritual energy from their bodies, and managed to flee in a hurry. Later, the Yi Family claimed I murdered my fellow disciples and issued a wanted poster against me."
"The case file didn't mention your trip to the tomb, nor did it say anything about them losing their spiritual energy. It only claimed that you killed three people. It looks like they deliberately omitted a section—the one most unfavorable to Senior Brother," Wang Yun said after a moment of thought. Then he asked, "Was that Yin Kuang a member of the Yi Family?"
"He wasn't an Yi family member; his surname didn't have the grass radical. He was just a disciple of the Yi Family, and he was the one who led the charge back then, which is why we dared to enter the tomb."
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