"I'll explain it!" Dugu Zixuan pulled Lin Heng to her side and said, one word at a time, "We didn't find a single trace of that bastard Lin Zhique inside the Forbidden Chamber. If he's alive, no one has seen him; if he's dead, there's no corpse."
"(?Д?) Huh? No way... his life or death is unknown?"
Hearing this, Duan Shuyun and the others were all startled as well. Though they had already guessed that something might have happened to the sect leader, what did "his life or death is unknown" mean?
Seeing that everyone in the hall was one of their own, Dugu Zixuan held nothing back and repeated everything they had discovered inside the Forbidden Chamber, along with Shi Yuanzhou's words.
Sure enough, after Lin Heng heard the cause and effect, his brows also knitted tightly.
"That's roughly how it is. Your mother and I couldn't make up our minds, so we immediately had Big Senior call you all back from Swallow Cloud City," Meng Yutong added.
Duan Shuyun stroked her chin, somewhat puzzled. "In that case, it does seem pretty strange. The Grand Elder wouldn't go so far as to lie. The whole sect, from top to bottom, knew that the sect leader had gone into seclusion."
"(′?ω?`) Then why would he suddenly vanish? Is there any chance he snuck out?"
The not-so-clever Dummy senior sister also chimed in.
But Dugu Zixuan shook her head slightly. "Probably not. I understand the restriction outside the Forbidden Chamber very well. It has to be set from the inside and placed outward. Lin Zhique must have locked himself inside. To put it simply, the person has to be inside to set up that restriction!"
"If he came out, he would have to close it again, and there's no way to