Since I was recounting everything in painstaking detail, I enunciated as clearly as I could so everyone could hear me. Whenever I failed to explain something clearly, I repeated it. Xia Ruize could not help interjecting once or twice, questioning various parts of my account and even suggesting illusions might have been involved, but in the end, no one appeared to believe him.
Just as I reached the part where Ren Zhi had told Xia Ruize to hold me off while he escaped first, another presence came hurtling up from the foot of the mountain. A flicker of displeasure rose in me. This presence was all too familiar, and its owner was also on my kill list!
"Heh, having a little gathering here? I wondered what Old Li could possibly have to say when he invited me over! Don't tell me it was just to watch these familiar faces chatting?" A gaunt old man in black robes drifted down from the sky. His formidable aura cowed everyone around him!
Another Deity Transformation cultivator! Even Zhou Qiping had successfully advanced. My heart sank, and there was also a supreme being of the Heavenly Ghost Dao inside him. That effectively made him two Deity Transformation cultivators, so he was not someone to underestimate. Grandma and I could not help exchanging a glance.
"Zhou Qiping, whatever you have to say can wait! Can't you see we're confronting each other over Ren Zhi's death?" Perfected Haoyang did not seem afraid of Zhou Qiping. Apparently, Yuezhou and Lanzhou had dealt with each other plenty in the past, and the two had disliked each other for a long time.
"Oh? Ren Zhi's death actually involved Xia Ruize? Didn't you say before that Xia Yitian killed him? I was even impressed at the time, thinking the lad