"Senior Brother Zhou Xinjin, how did you end up in such a sorry state?"
"Elder Zheng Yuan, where is Junior Brother Lin Bai?"
Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the others hurried over, shielding Zhou Xinjin as they asked.
"Something went wrong inside Celestial Pillar Peak. Elder Zheng Yuan fought bitterly against the Corpse King to buy Junior Brother Lin Bai and me time to escape." Zhou Xinjin gave a brief explanation.
"Don't worry. Junior Brother Lin Bai and I both escaped safely... Huh? Junior Brother Lin Bai hasn't returned yet? I remember he was ahead of me."
Zhou Xinjin looked around, but he did not see any sign of Lin Bai, and could not help feeling puzzled.
Yi Zien frowned when he heard this.
Li Juenian's expression darkened, and he asked coldly, "Senior Brother Zhou Xinjin, you didn't take advantage of the chaos to... kill Junior Brother Lin Bai, did you?"
Hearing Li Juenian's words, Yi Zien did not refute him either. Everyone knew about the grudge between Zhou Xinjin and Lin Bai.
Now Zhou Xinjin kept insisting that Lin Bai had escaped Celestial Pillar Peak together with him.
Yet only Zhou Xinjin had returned gravely wounded, while Lin Bai's fate remained unknown.
This inevitably made people suspicious. Had Zhou Xinjin secretly eliminated Lin Bai?
"I..." Zhou Xinjin had just begun to explain when a person suddenly came to mind. That person was none other than Lin Bai. He gave a bitter smile. "Perhaps Junior Brother Lin Bai is in the same situation as I am now."
"This is truly... impossible to explain!"
Zhou Xinjin's face was full of bitterness. Lin Bai had not returned, and Li Juenian and Yi Zien had immediately assumed that Zhou Xinjin had killed him. Moreover, Zhou Xinjin himself had repeatedly claimed that he and