The Endless Promise

57. A Little Cool

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The accusations swirled around Zhang Furen, and Lord Xu sighed. "Zhang Furen, do you owe us an explanation?"

But Zhang Furen herself was severely shocked.

'How-?! How did they know?!!'

In the hunting plains, Zhang Cheng had indeed used an illegal summoning talisman to pull in four Sect Warriors, all under Zhang Furen's employ.

The whole thing had been secretly planned with two Xu Elders and the four Sect warriors...

As Zhang Cheng collected his wooden token, one of the Xu Elders secretly directed a spell at it, eliminating the tamper seal, and this allowed one of the Sect warriors to duplicate it.

Between Zhang Cheng, his partner Wei San, and four powerful Sect Warriors far above their level, it was only too easy to rack up the scores, and they consciously stopped at 383 so it wouldn't raise suspicion.

'It's not possible!' Zhang Furen currently shook her head in disbelief. 'No one else knew!'

Down on the platform, Luoyin's wide smile was a little too evil, his dimples deepening.

Zhang Furen had set up such an elaborate plan, but from the instant Luoyin heard about the Sect tournament, he fully expected Zhang Cheng to play dirty in some way.

This gave Luoyin months ahead to prepare, and in that time, he had asked Yinying to go invisible and follow Zhang Cheng and his mother as much as possible.

It wasn't too difficult to catch wind of Zhang Furen's plan, and at the wedding, confirming her as a grievance was the perfect bonus!

After that, it became a simple matter of getting someone to 'accidentally' pass on the information to specific highly moral Sect Elders, just before the competition.

At present, Zhang Furen got herself under control and rose to her feet. "I don't understand." She began, sending a kind smile at the elders. "If I've offended you, please make it clear, so I can make amends... Slandering me like this without proof is heart breaking."

"That's a simple matter!" The graying elder spoke. "Let's examine Zhang Cheng's token!"

"I agree!" Zhang Furen instantly nodded, but no one noticed her eyes quickly dart to and from a Xu elder, and the Xu elder held his fingers in a seal, directing a small spell towards Zhang Cheng to undo his tamper on the token.

Unfortunately, the spell hit an invisible barrier, and the graying elder smiled.

"Nice try! We noticed when you cast the spell yesterday... Wouldn't we take precautions now? I put up a barrier the instant I stood up to speak!"

And this was precisely why Luoyin had settled on telling the Sect Elders...

As Elders, they certainly wouldn't blindly believe such news, but Luoyin's information had stated what Zhang Furen intended to do with the token.

This would make the elders watch carefully, even if only to prove the news wrong.

Instead, they had seen it for themselves.

Luoyin had also expected the Sect Elders to remain silent, even if they were annoyed, so he had deliberately scored a high and unreasonable score, knowing Zhang Cheng, Zhang Furen, and the Xu Elders wouldn't be able to resist accusing him.

Which would only annoy the Sect Elders into action!

And now, as everyone watched, Elder Zhou appeared next to Zhang Cheng and the wooden token zoomed into his hand.