A Plan to Escape

"Who? Who killed Peak Master Gan?!"

"Speak! Who exactly killed Peak Master Gan? Confess honestly, or I'll wipe out your entire clan!" Clutching Gan Rusong's head, Fang Lifeng wailed as though his father had died.

Even through his grief, Fang Lifeng turned on Ye Zhen, who had produced the head, and roared at him in fury.

Ye Zhen did not get angry. There was no point getting angry at a dead man. He merely teased Fang Lifeng, saying, "Well, I really don't know. I told you, I just happened to pick up Gan Rusong's head!" Ye Zhen wore an innocent expression.

At those words, the representatives of the four major forces—Duan Yingnian, Yan Cong, and the others—as well as Cult Master Jian Qianxiong, Tu De, and Shen Cang, all rolled their eyes.

He just happened to pick up Gan Rusong's head?

Who would believe that?

Only an idiot would.

How could there be such a coincidence in this world?

Gan Rusong had been about to capture Ye Zhen and kill him, yet Ye Zhen had just returned and conveniently picked up the head of Gan Rusong, a Palace Opening Realm King, along the way. Did he think the heads of Palace Opening Realm Kings were stones, lying around to be picked up with a casual glance downward?

In an instant, everyone became convinced that the death of Gan Rusong, this Palace Opening Realm King, had everything to do with Ye Zhen.

There was an eighty or ninety percent chance that Ye Zhen had hired someone to kill Gan Rusong.

And the one who had killed a Palace Opening Realm King could only have been another Palace Opening Realm King.

In other words, Ye Zhen had someone backing him!

There was a powerful Palace Opening Realm King behind him, and one