"What did you say? Zhong Yue betrayed us..."
"Yes, Sacred Lord, we saw it with our own eyes. That Zhong Yue was a prisoner too, yet the Immortal Alliance kept calling him Diviner Zhong, and even invited him to drink..."
"When we escaped, we even faintly heard him cursing you, Sacred Lord, saying something about you being a self-willed piece of trash..."
Halfway through his words, Lu Yuanliang's face darkened. The terrifying pressure emanating from him almost compressed the entire space of the tent.
Elder Wang felt an icy chill for a moment. He swallowed and did not dare continue.
"Good... very good, Zhong Yue. This Sacred Lord is self-willed, this Sacred Lord is trash, yet he, a grand elder of the Divine Calculation Pavilion and strategist of the Supreme Alliance, actually betrayed the Heavenly Action Continent!"
"Sacred Lord, I think the reason we lost so miserably was all Zhong Yue's doing!" Elder Wang echoed.
Those words struck right into Lu Yuanliang's heart.
He had already stated in the battle report that the crushing defeat had been caused by Zhong Yue's betrayal. What he had originally been counting on was that dead men told no tales; if he pushed it onto a dead man, even the Supreme Alliance would find no grounds to object.
Nor would he suffer the anger of the others because of it.
As for the Divine Calculation Pavilion, the entire force would probably suffer calamity.
Betrayal, to the current Heavenly Action Continent, was no different from turning one's spear around. The Supremes would never allow such a thing to happen.
Now that Zhong Yue's betrayal had become fact and cause and effect had closed into a loop, there was nothing to worry about.
Lu Yuanliang sighed, looked at Elder Wang, and said flatly, "Elder Wang, if