Seven elders were sitting around a table. All of them had extremely heavy expressions.

  Soon, one took a heavy breath and began to speak.

  “I saw Elder Shu doing a number of helpful tasks in the infirmary… I can say quite certainly that he is not the crouching tiger among us.”

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  A number of elders groaned.

  “You dare testify on Shu’s behalf? You are most certainly courting a gruesome death. I watched him cultivate a demonic technique with my own two eyes!”

  “Hah! We know that you say this because you are the one who is surely cultivating a demonic technique! You are the crouching tiger among us!”

  “How do we know that you are not just shifting the blame, Xu? Perhaps you are cultivating a demonic technique… Now that I think about it… I didn’t see you do a single helpful task the entire time you were in the pavilion!”