Ling Qi took a moment to recollect himself before he continued with his testimony. Yang Qing being intimately familiar with the burden of guilt having gone through it himself, only too recently, could tell Ling Qi was still clothed in it, but he seemed much better than he was a few seconds ago.
The little interlude seemed to have done him some good for now. But much later, when it was just him and his thoughts, that was something else.
"They didn't mention, but when the tricolored white-eyed tortoise retaliated, Daoist Hua Ying and Daoist Wu Shen took the brunt of its attack while Daoist Xin who has the highest speed, tried to help me avoid what was left.
We still ended up getting caught in it.
The cover they provided was what gave me the chance to use my cultivation spell to try and contain the poison.