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Before long, a maid entered the hall carrying tea, but Qingfeng was nowhere to be seen.

Fang Tian and his son gave it no further thought. Qin Jishi extended a hand. "Please, have some tea."

Hearing this, Fang Tian and his son had no idea what Qin Jishi meant. Fang Hua glanced at Fang Tian. Seeing him lift the tea and take a light sip, he too picked up his cup.

The hall fell silent for a moment!

Qin Jishi lightly tapped the side table beside him, his eyes closed and his lips silent.

Fang Hua wanted to break the silence, but seeing that Fang Tian made no move, he dismissed the thought.

They understood in their hearts that once the silence was broken, they would get to the main subject.

Fang Tian appeared as steady as Mount Tai, his face expressionless, yet waves churned endlessly in his heart.

He did not know whether he had made the right gamble.

A foundation built over countless centuries would be reduced to ashes in an instant if he had gambled wrong.

Fang Tian did not regret it, because this was his only hope of avenging his grandson.

One cup of tea later!

Just as the silence in the hall became incomparably oppressive, Qin Jishi opened his eyes. "Old Patriarch Fang, from what you said earlier, it seemed that the one who slaughtered the Fang Family's Young Master was... someone from the Heaven Annihilation Pavilion?"

Qin Jishi's question, which broke the silence, instead made Fang Tian's heart skip a beat.

He could not see through Qin Jishi, much less know what he was thinking.

The unknowable was the most terrifying thing.

Fang Tian now felt as though he were treading on thin ice. One misstep, and an abyss ten thousand fathoms deep would