Keira’s pupils shrank. “What nonsense are you spouting?!”


    Jackson sneered, “How am I spouting nonsense? It’s all true. Everyone knows that to be an Inner


    Sect Disciple, you’ve almost gone mad. It was you who came to my bed and offered yourself. I took pity


    on you and slept with you, and now what? You’ve passed the preliminary selection of the martial arts


    competition and found another way, so you n on kicking me to


    the curb?”


    People who hade to fetch things immediately stood by to watch themotion, pointing and


    whispering about Keira.


    “Keera looks quite timid, but I didn’t expect her to be this sort of person…”


    “You can’t judge a book by its cover, can you? Anyone who offers themselves up can’t be a good


    person.”


    As the Outer Sect Disciples pointed and whispered


    about her, Matias rushed over and angrily said, “Don’t talk nonsense! Keera isn’t that sort of person. It


    was Jackson who constantly pressured her to submit. She disagreed, otherwise, she wouldn’t have


    been missing these past two months!”


    The crowd was momentarily stunned, then turned to look at Jackson.


    Jackson scoffed. “Why hasn’t shee over these past two months? Of course, it’s because after I


    slept with her, I couldn’t secure her an Inner Sect Disciple spot. If I had a spot, wouldn’t I use it myself?


    This woman really thinks the Gill family can do anything! Is the Freeman Sect a ce where we can


    mess around as


    we please?”


    Matias’s face turned ashen with anger. “Jackson, don’t tarnish Keera’s reputation here. Previously, it


    was clearly you kept pursuing her unsessfully, giving her all kinds of difficulties, getting her to do


    this and that, and even reporting to the Elders that she was cking and not practicing martial arts,


    causing her to make no progress over the years!”


    Jackson scoffed. “Matias, who do you think you are? You’re part of a coteral line, but you’re pointing


    fingers at me here? Do you believe that with just one word, I can make your family disappear from


    nce?” Matias scoffed. “You think I’m afraid of you?”


    “You’re not afraid, but do you think your grandmother


    would be?”


    Matias choked.


    Jackson sneered once again, turning his attention back to Keera. “Of course, I’m a rather sentimental


    person. Since you’ve slept with me, I’ll certainly protect you. Keera, continue toe to my room


    tonight, otherwise, I’ll report to the higher-ups that your two-month absence counts as an automatic


    resignation from the Freeman Sect!”


    Keira sneered.


    Yet Matias was already furious to the extreme. “If she hasn’t reported in, isn’t it because you forced


    her? Jackson, you’ve gone too far!”


    Jackson scoffed. “Freeman Sect rules state that an


    Outer Sect Disciple who doesn’t report in for a month is considered to have left automatically. I’m just


    following the rules. What about it?!”


    Keira spoke slowly, “Really? ording to Freeman Sect rules, are the words of you, an outer manager,


    more important, or those of the Elders more important?”


    Jackson was taken aback. “What do you mean? You think the Inner Sect Elders would speak for you?”


    Keira immediately said, “I came for a Bone Assessment yesterday, and it was Elder Grant who allowed


    me to participate in the Outer Sect martial artspetition. What now? Are your words more powerful


    than Elder Grant’s?”


    Jackson choked. “You went for a Bone Assessment again? What could you possibly find out?”


    “What I found out has nothing to do with you.”


    Keira took step by step toward Jackson, her face cold as she stared at him, causing his scalp to tingle.


    He had never known that the weak woman who only begged him for mercy had this side to her.


    He swallowed hard but still said, “What do you want


    me to make clear? How you plead under me? Or how loudly you were moaning?”


    Keira grabbed his cor in one swift move.


    Jackson reached out to push her away, but the arms of the woman, who had always seemed weak and


    easily bullied by him, now felt as solid as bronze walls and iron bones, rendering him unable to break


    free.


    Keira stared at him intently. “Exin.”


    Jackson swallowed hard, then cursed angrily, “Keera, what are you doing? Assaulting a superior is


    grounds for expulsion from the Freeman Sect! Even if Elder Grant vouched for you and let you


    participate in the martial artspetition, you can’ty hands on me!”


    Keira kept her stare fixed on him.


    She had thoroughly memorized the Freeman Sect’s rules yesterday.


    Indeed, assaulting someone of a higher rank would result in immediate expulsion, but Keera’s


    grievances couldn’t just be acknowledged like this!


    A fierce light shed in Keira’s eyes, and then she slowly released Jackson’s hand she had been


    holding. But just as Jackson scoffed, she suddenly clutched his


    throat!


    Her fingers were well-defined, and when she clutched


    his throat it made lookson immediately faol short of


    breath, unable to breathe.


    His eyes bulged, and both hands fiercely clutched Keira’s hand, trying to push her away, but he found


    he couldn’t muster any strength!


    Jackson struggled desperately.


    Keira continued to stare at him intently. “Speak. What ‘s your rtion to Keera?”


    Jackson pped at her hands, struggling to speak, but no words came out. The feeling of death crept


    over him, making him panic.


    Seeing the threat in Keira’s eyes, he knew that if he didn’t clear her name, he might actually be choked


    to death right there today!


    He pped Keira’s hand again…


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    Keira watched him closely until Jackson stuck out his tongue, then she finally let go.


    Gosh…


    Jackson coughed in fear, gasping for air, his eyes


    tearing up in fright as he said, “How can I speak if you don’t let me go?!”


    Keira’s expression darkened.


    Jackson quickly covered his Alright, alright, I’ll


    say it. Keera never seduced me.


    between us!”


    Keira scoffed. “Louder!”


    Jackson didn’t want to speak.


    There’s nothing


    Keira took a step forward again, forcing Jackson to shout, “Fine! I’ll say it! Keera never seduced me!


    There’s nothing between Keera and me! Are you


    satisfied now?”


    Only then did Keira take a step back.


    Once she left, Jackson clenched his fists tightly. “Keera, how dare you show such insubordination? I’m


    going right to the Disciplinary Hall to tell the Elders, to seek justice from them!”


    At the same time.


    Elder Grant stroked his beard, standing outside the Sect Leader’s room. After hesitating for a moment,


    he finally knocked on the door.


    The Sect Leader was in good spirits today, his eyes


    swollen to slits.


    Seeing Elder Grant, he asked, “Elder Grant, what brings you here?”


    Elder Grant looked at his appearance, twitched the corner of his mouth, and then said, “Yesterday,


    during the Bone Assessment, I found a remarkable woman. She seems to have some simrities to the


    senior sister you once mentioned, so I wanted to inquire


    about it.”