Crack, crack!
Sizzle!
These were the sounds of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Little Cat crunching bones and biting through sinews.
Grand Divine Master Shou Xuan's sudden attack on Ye Zhen had been extremely abrupt. Although he had released an avatar afterward as a disguise, intending to mislead Ye Zhen.
A Dao Realm expert's disguise was indeed formidable. It had successfully fooled Ye Zhen's Spiritual Sense, but it could not fool Big Ear Nie Ting's ears.
The very instant the assassin fled, Big Ear had used his innate divine ability to tell Ye Zhen that Grand Divine Master Shou Xuan, who had gone after the assassin, had lost an arm.
Then who the assassin was was plain as day.
Moreover, Ye Zhen understood the true purpose behind Grand Divine Master Shou Xuan suddenly trying to assassinate him and giving him such an insignificant palm strike.
This was also why Ye Zhen had risked his life and made countless preparations to return in the shortest possible time. There was no other reason.
Ye Zhen had not cleaned away all the traces of the massacre at the Luozhou Branch Temple. On the contrary, aside from things that should not have appeared, such as the aura of the Spirit Void Fruit Tree Demon, he had left everything else untouched.
If he cleaned things up too thoroughly, how could he clear himself of suspicion?
Presumably, once Heaven Temple experts arrived at the Luozhou Branch Temple and saw the traces left at the massacre site, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance they would connect it to Ye Zhen.
Then the first thing they would do would be to determine whether Ye Zhen could have committed the crime.
They would see where Ye Zhen had been and whether he had had the time to