Lilium and Iris led the recruits out to the banquet since the others must be quite tired from going around places so they stayed at the base, they didn't have Zi Hua's teleportation ability after all. Plus, the rest of the members had also returned to the base as per Zi Hua's order.
Everyone turned silent and faced the people who entered.
"Thank you all for attending"
"We have held this banquet to welcome the new recruits and specially for this occasion the sect leader has decided to make an appearance" A beautiful maiden of 14 years old stepped into the room, the recruits were all confused on why the person didn't look like their Sect leader at all instead someone who although looked beautiful couldn't compare to her beauty, however ,instinctively, they knew it was their Sect leader.
She was dressed in a purple and lilac hanfu with ribbons arranged as a beautiful butterfly on her back.
The audience all gasped in awe, however the people of General's Manor all paled in unease, Zi Hua had taken on an appearance similar to Xia Fei Yan's mother, a gentle beauty.
The Crown Prince who didn't notice the General's Manor's reaction nor recognize the looks impudently went forward to greet Zi Hua, since the Light Phantom Sect had announced the sect exam and had a celebration in Nan Xia Empire it could be that they hold Nan Xia Empire in favor.
"Greetings to Light Phantom Sect leader, it's an honor for the banquet to be held in our empire" The Crown Prince's words were not for the Sect leader but rather the other princes and princesses of the other empires.
"En" 'Xia Fei Yan' looked over towards the General's Manor's people, when they met that pair of piercing eyes they all thought that it couldn't be her, that little girl was no more that a timid weakling.
They all tensed up when 'Xia Fei Yan' walked over to them.
"Fei Yan greets father" 'Xia Fei Yan' greeted her 'father' but her voice didn't hold any respect, rather it was said in a mocking tone, she didn't even bother giving the slightest bow.
Xia Li was frozen, how could that timid and good-for-nothing daughter from his first love be the same powerful figure in front of him, not noticing the ridiculing attitude he thought that he had a chance to repair their father and daughter bond.
"Yan'er has grown up, father was worried sick after you left, your mother had left me when you were young, it broke my heart for you to leave too"
Hearing her husband's words Zhang Ling Xin gritted her teeth in anger, she had fallen in love with him first but that sl*t became the first wife, she had taken so much effort to seduce him yet that sl*t's daughter outshines hers.
Zhang Ling Xin was a smart woman, much more so than both her daughters and her son that had gone away with her eldest daughter, she knew that 'Xia Fei Yan's' power was immense so she had no choice but to endure.
Like Xia Wen Ya, she had poisoned all the concubines in the courtyard but Xia Fei Yan's mother had miraculously managed to give birth to this wrenched girl.
"Mother was worried too" Zhang Ling Xin had always took upon the role of a kind madam, she threw the events from the sect exam to the back of her mind with it being buried by thoughts of hatred.
Listening to the couple's words, Zi Hua sneered in her heart, truly shameless and thick-faced.
"Haha, heart-broken, worried about me? That's the biggest joke I've heard, you couldn't wait for me to die, I was nothing but a nuisance in you people's eyes. I've come back here to expose all your horrible sins to everyone" 'Xia Fei Yan's' words made the other guests come to a realization, she hadn't come back to honor her lineage but to seek revenge.
"Bring out the scrolls" Zi Hua had gathered all their crimes throughout the years along with absolute proof.
"Year xxx, General's Manor killed off 5 families due to their suspicions"
"Year xxx, General's Manor annihilated their fifth young lady's maternal family"
"Year xxx, General's Manor gathered a group of experts secretly"
"Year xxx, General's Manor secretly had many organisations surrender their loyalty to them" And the list went on, only when everything was exposed did the people of General's Manor finally get back to their senses.
"Don't go spouting nonsense, you don't have any evidence" Xia Li could foresee the ending they would have if the emperor found out, no monarch would accept such subordinates and each emperor has a group of powerful experts at their command, who had the powers to get rid of General's Manor.
"Evidence? Haha, you think I don't have evidence? Have you ever thought why I didn't just annihilate the entire General's Manor, it's because I couldn't stand the horrendous things the General's Manor has done to be kept hidden and let those victims suffer unjustly"
Xiao Shen and the three spirit beasts, who were in the Heaven-defying artifact watching the whole thing unfold through a screen that Xiao Shen had put up whilst eating popcorn, rolled their eyes, since when did their master become so righteous?