Chapter 848 - 759: If You Want to Speak, Speak Properly—No Need to Slander Others

The questions that remained in their hearts were what they needed to verify in the next two years.

"Senior Sister, that shameless bastard Shen Han just left with the people from Meihua Tower, should we..."

Song Xiuqi seemed to hold a deep grudge against Shen Han; the moment the discussion ended, he brought it up.

And the moment she heard the words "shameless bastard," Song Shiyin’s delicate brows couldn’t help but knit.

Though she had only known Shen Han for a little over two days, Song Shiyin acknowledged Shen Han’s character and conduct.

She even quite approved of Shen Han as a person.

If possible, she would be happy to be friends with Shen Han.

Hearing Song Xiuqi say this, she naturally felt somewhat displeased.

"You just had a bit of a clash with him, each with your own goals. He merely beat you, that’s all. How does that amount to shamelessness?"

With that single sentence, everyone present was left a bit dumbfounded.

What did that mean...

It sounded like she was speaking up for Shen Han?

Song Xiuqi, off to the side, had nothing but question marks in his head.

"Senior Sister, I was just saying it casually..."

"If you’re going to say it, then say it properly. Why fling filth at people for nothing?

His conduct shows no depravity, his nature has no flaw—on what grounds do you call him shameless?

If we smear others like this, then we are the ones who are truly shameless."

The disciples of Cangqiong Manor and Dream God Palace present were all somewhat startled.

They could all feel that their Senior Sister was angry.

Yet clearly no one had done anything; it was just Song Xiuqi making an offhand remark, calling Shen Han a shameless bastard...

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, unable to understand what Song Shiyin meant by this sudden stance.

"Senior Sister, that Shen Han has already left, we..."

Mustering his courage, Song Xiuqi asked again.

Hearing this, Song Shiyin directly turned her head to look at him.

"Senior Sister, you said you’d help us teach him a lesson...

You said you’d help us take back the face we lost..."

Everyone didn’t understand why Song Shiyin’s attitude had suddenly shifted, but Xu Shunian still couldn’t let go of the resentment in his heart.

Seeing Song Xiuqi alone and outmatched, although he didn’t get along with Song Xiuqi, when it came to dealing with Shen Han, the two shared the same goal.

Hearing this, Song Shiyin slightly turned her head to look at Xu Shunian.

Xu Shunian was from Dream God Palace, so Song Shiyin wasn’t as harsh with him as she was with Song Xiuqi.

"In truth, you kids were due for some lessons.

On the River Source Continent there are countless strong cultivators. Just because you think your talent is outstanding, you act without any scruples.

Shen Han giving you a bit of a lesson is, for you, an even better warning.

If it had been some other powerhouse, with you acting so arrogant and overbearing before them, do you think you could still be standing here as calmly as you are today?

Your Senior Brother Yanyang isn’t even his match. Xiuqi, Shunian, how could you possibly be his match?

If you ask me, with how magnanimous he was, you two brats ought to be thanking him instead."

Song Shiyin’s little speech made both Song Xiuqi and Xu Shunian feel their vision go dark.

What was that supposed to mean...

Not only would they not be going to teach Shen Han a lesson, they even had to go thank Shen Han.

"Senior Sister..."

The two of them really wanted to ask whether their Senior Sister had suffered some kind of shock.

Whether she had run into something inside the Immortal’s Residence...

But when the words reached their mouths, neither of them spoke.

Even so, their Senior Sister’s change in attitude from before to now was truly far too drastic.

After everyone dispersed, quite a few gathered together, unable to resist talking about the matter.

They speculated about what exactly had happened.

Their Senior Sister seemed to have never spoken up for an outsider like this before.

While Song Xiuqi and Xu Shunian were still full of confusion, Song Shiyin seemed to think of something and walked straight up to them.

"I’ve thought it over, and perhaps we should all go and apologize to him.

When Shen Han was fighting Yanyang, I intervened to stop it—that was my mistake.

We’ll go together and offer him our apologies."

As she spoke, Song Shiyin intended to lead Song Xiuqi and Xu Shunian over.

Hearing this, both of them hurriedly backed away.

Their hearts were one hundred times unwilling.

"Senior Sister, he’s the one who disgraced us, and we’re going to apologize to him? How does that make any sense..."

"It was you who first looked down on and belittled someone else. Shen Han merely revealed his true strength.

The fact that your faces were bruised is your own doing—how can you blame that on someone else?

This trip is specifically to apologize for all the nonsense you spouted before."

With these words from Song Shiyin, the two of them lowered their faces, not daring to argue with her.

But both of them retreated even farther, using their actions to refuse.

Dream God Palace and Cangqiong Manor are both top powers on the continent.

Their faces had already been trampled, and now they were going to apologize—who knew how others would talk about the two of them after this.

Seeing the two of them both avoiding it, Song Shiyin’s gaze naturally shifted onto Song Xiuqi.

"Xiuqi, you go with your Senior Sister."

Song Xiuqi was from Cangqiong Manor, so she naturally didn’t have so many misgivings.

It was just that Song Xiuqi’s expression looked ugly, and no matter how he dodged, he was unwilling to go.

He didn’t say a word, didn’t dare to talk back, yet still firmly refused.

In the end this matter of apologizing fell through, and after everyone regrouped, they first returned to Cangqiong Manor.

But this completely reversed attitude of Song Shiyin’s before and after planted a question mark in many people’s hearts.

As for what kind of impression one has of a person, the first meeting is very important.

Song Shiyin’s first impression of Shen Han was naturally not very good.

As Cangqiong Manor’s senior sister, siding with her own junior brothers was only normal.

Instinctively, she had taken Shen Han as someone unfriendly.

You couldn’t quite call him an enemy, but it definitely wasn’t any good impression.

Yet the series of events that happened in the Immortal’s Residence was enough to change her impression of Shen Han.

The reason Song Shiyin had been able to enter the deeper parts of the Immortal’s Residence was because she had studied it for a very long time.

She had discussed it with the manor’s elders for many years before they discovered this secret.

When she fell into that swamp, Song Shiyin had actually already given up.

She felt it was impossible for anyone to find their way in there.

If her luck was good, she, Song Shiyin, might endure three days and be thrown out of the Immortal’s Residence.

If her luck was bad, she would lose her strength and Realm, be unable to withstand that bitter cold and hunger, and then perish within.

Song Shiyin had already thought all this through at the time, she just hadn’t anticipated that someone would actually enter that place.

Shen Han’s arrival truly caught her completely off guard.

What she hadn’t expected even more was that Shen Han would save her...

Given the attitude she had shown before, Song Shiyin felt that Shen Han not kicking her while she was down would already be extremely good.

But the fact was, Shen Han had saved her life.

And in the subsequent dangers, Shen Han saved her several more times.

As a person, one must know to be grateful—this much Song Shiyin understood.

Cangqiong Manor.

After returning to her own little courtyard, the Song Shiyin of today unusually did not cultivate.

She leaned lightly against her bed, scenes from within the Immortal’s Residence replaying endlessly in her mind.

Throughout the whole process, Shen Han’s performance had astonished her.

She, Song Shiyin, had always prided herself on having peerless talent; before this, across the entire River Source Continent, she hadn’t felt she was inferior to anyone.

But this time, she was indeed somewhat impressed by Shen Han.

In that kind of perilous situation, even she, who considered herself a genius, had felt it hard to take even a single step...

In a hidden spot, Song Xiuqi stood by the side of a middle-aged woman.

"Your senior sister’s behavior after returning this time is indeed a bit abnormal.

Xiuqi, go back and rest first. I’ll see to the rest."

Hearing this, Song Xiuqi saluted the person before him, then stepped onto his Magical Artifact and departed.

In Cangqiong Manor, when it came to talent, Song Xiuqi had always been highly praised.

But praise was one thing; no one would say that Song Xiuqi was the most talented disciple of Cangqiong Manor’s current generation.

Because among this generation, there was still Song Shiyin.

With Song Shiyin around, everyone else could only watch from afar.

Cangqiong Manor’s future carried a great many expectations placed upon Song Shiyin.

No wonder, then, that they paid such close attention to her.

While she hesitated, the middle-aged woman had already landed in front of the courtyard and lightly knocked on the gate.

Seeing who had come, Song Shiyin immediately came out to greet her.

"Master, what brings you here..."

The middle-aged woman before her was precisely Song Shiyin’s master, Tang Biyun.

She was also an Elder of Cangqiong Manor.

"Strictly speaking, it really shouldn’t be your master coming to find you; it should be you coming to pay your respects to your master.

After you came back, you didn’t even think to report your safe return..."

Tang Biyun’s words carried a hint of reproach.

Their relationship as master and disciple was actually quite close, which was why she spoke this way.

"This disciple only thought that it was getting late today and would disturb Master’s cultivation..."

"All right, all right, don’t explain all that.

This time in the Immortal’s Residence, did you encounter anything out of the ordinary?"

Tang Biyun lightly scolded her twice, then began asking about the main matter.

"There wasn’t anything particularly unusual, it was all..."

"You’re sure there wasn’t?"

At Tang Biyun’s counter-question, a faint flicker passed through Song Shiyin’s eyes, though on the surface she remained calm.

It was just that these little movements of hers inexplicably added a few degrees to the worry in Tang Biyun’s heart.

After hesitating for a moment, Song Shiyin finally spoke.

"On this trip, this disciple did indeed reach the deeper parts of the Immortal’s Residence..."