"A setup. This doesn't make any sense. It has to be...a setup." Shui Haoyue rejected the news, refusing to believe that the Nameless Sword Mountain's disciples would stoop so low as to kidnap and slaughter mortals.
It's not that Haoyue had blind faith in the kindness of human nature. Rather, as a faction of the righteous path, the Nameless Sword Mountain had appearances to maintain, appearances secured by strict sect laws that only suicidal invertebrates would dare to break. The oppression of mortals ranked high on that list, with public execution being the lightest sentence.
