On Star Island, the five Myriad Stars Tower giants who had just returned—Gai Jun, Huang Tan, Ou Tuo, Ning Shiyi, and Yan Wudi—sat facing one another in a quiet room, every one of them wearing an extremely grave expression.
"So, the five Young Floor Masters were all ambushed and captured alive after Ye Zhen disguised himself as Huang Tan? And they were captured without resistance because they had been poisoned?"
"Judging by the wounds on Gai Shanjun and Ning Chun, they too were poisoned first, then killed without being able to make a move!"
"Then one thing is certain: Ye Zhen possesses a strange poison, one capable of easily threatening Dao Entry Realm experts!"
As he spoke, Gai Jun turned his gaze to Huang Tan. "The tower's pill affairs have always been under your control, while intelligence has always been handled by you and Ou Tuo.
"Within a year, can you uncover information about this strange poison?"
Bitterness tinged Huang Tan's lips. "The tower's finest alchemists have already examined the bodies of several Young Floor Masters, as well as the corpses of Gai Shanjun and Ning Chun.
"No residual poison was found in their bodies!
"At present, we can only infer that this strange poison must draw blood, and that it takes effect with unbelievable speed—it can be said to erupt the instant it enters the body! Otherwise, there could not have been no signs whatsoever of a struggle at Big Brother's place of seclusion!"
"Erupting the instant it enters the body..."
At those words, Gai Jun's expression grew even graver. "If... if Ye Zhen gave this strange poison to the Three Saints of Sky Wing Island, then once we suffer any injuries in battle..."
The moment those words left his mouth, the expressions of the other four hardened. The