Within the Eighteenth Level of the Fire Domain at the Sword Hiding Hermitage, Lin Bai had already imprisoned more than twenty martial artists from the Lian Province Alliance. If he still did not release them within three months, they could only be refined into ashes within the Fire Domain.
Lin Bai still sat inside the pavilion reading, as though none of this had ever happened.
Several days passed in the blink of an eye. Senior Brother Su Yue still sat within the Lian Province Alliance, but a layer of gloom that could never disperse remained on his face. "Zhang, Li, Zhao, and the others went to the Sword Hiding Hermitage. They still haven't returned?"
The names Su Yue had just mentioned belonged precisely to the martial artists Lin Bai had imprisoned in the Fire Domain.
"Yes, they haven't returned since going to the Sword Hiding Hermitage. We thought they had gone to Qilin Town to seek out flowers and willows, but I went to the alleys in Qilin Town that several senior brothers often visited. The women there said they hadn't seen any of them come by these past few days."
A trusted aide who followed Su Yue whispered, his expression grim. "Senior Brother, where do you think those senior brothers could have gone?"
Su Yue's face darkened. "Where else could they have gone? They probably all died inside the Sword Hiding Hermitage."
"What! Are you saying... Qing Luo killed those senior brothers?" the trusted disciple asked in shock.
Su Yue said in a low voice, "The Sword Hiding Hermitage is a cultivation ground bestowed upon Qing Luo by the sect. Everything inside belongs entirely to Qing Luo. If he executes someone within his own cultivation ground, even the sect has no right to interfere. Besides, those junior brothers trespassed