Shi Yuanzhou listened to their conversation with a baffled expression. "What Calamity? What insects? What are you talking about?"
"Elder Shi, explaining now would take too much breath. Do you know whether there are any other exits from inside this peak?"
"Only two. One is the stone gate behind the mountain, and the other is at the circular altar in the Main Peak plaza. But there has never been any disturbance there. This old man has remained on the Main Peak the whole time—if Sect Leader Lin appeared, I would definitely have noticed!"
"And you saw it yourselves. The restrictions at the stone gate have never changed. If the people inside do not open it themselves, those outside can forget about entering." Shi Yuanzhou explained.
"Then this is far too strange. If there are only two passages, where is Sect Leader Lin now? Dead or alive, we need to see the person or the corpse. The three of us searched inside and out—did we see even a shadow of him?"
Meng Yutong's words left Shi Yuanzhou dumbfounded as well.
That was right!!
Where was Lin Zhique?
This Blood Robe was what Lin Zhique had worn when he returned. Shi Yuanzhou had personally watched him enter the peak, then activate the restriction barrier and forbid anyone from disturbing him.
Now, both the Blood Robe and the jade bead had been found inside, proving that he had definitely entered. Yet the man himself had vanished.
Wasn't that utterly absurd?!
"Don't look at this old man. I can't explain what happened either!" Shi Yuanzhou's scalp prickled under their stares.
In the end, Meng Yutong spoke. "Zixuan, Elder Shi probably isn't lying. Sect Leader Lin's mysterious disappearance likely has another cause. Since we can't figure it out now, we can wait until Heng'er returns