Bai Yifei emerged from seclusion!
Zhou Xinjin also understood that his senior brother was right.
The sect kept claiming it was investigating Mu Huaqing's cause of death, but what if Lin Bai really was the killer, and the sect intended to protect him by constantly making excuses and dragging things out?
Were they supposed to wait a year? Two years? Or even a hundred years before announcing the truth?
If the sect intended to wait that long, were Grand Elder, Bai Yifei, and Zhou Xinjin supposed to keep waiting forever?
"Then what does Senior Brother plan to do?" Zhou Xinjin asked.
Bai Yifei drew a deep breath and said, "Lin Bai is now the sect's darling, one of the six candidates for Saint Son. If we act inside the sect, we'll be challenging the sect's rules!"
"We have to find an opportunity to make him leave the sect. Only then can we act!"
Zhou Xinjin nodded helplessly. Although he had never been certain that Lin Bai was the murderer, this matter had now implicated far too many people—even Grand Elder had been dragged into it.
Zhou Xinjin only wanted to settle the matter as soon as possible and protect his master's old age!
If Grand Elder ended up branded a traitor who had betrayed the sect and abandoned the Dao because of this matter, all the sect's painstaking efforts throughout his life would go to waste.
That was what Zhou Xinjin was least willing to see.
Even if Lin Bai truly was not the murderer, even if they killed the wrong man, so long as they could bury this matter once and for all, Zhou Xinjin felt that killing Lin Bai might not be unacceptable!
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