Stay Away from Them

We're getting serious!

Sure enough, once ears were involved, things started getting complicated.

Cheng Shi in the jacket across from him might have discovered something. The fact that he had identified Long Jing's name meant that this trial had developed even more variables.

Could Long Jing be impersonating him?

It wasn't impossible. That acrobat was good at playing roles, and Cheng Shi had even met him before.

So who exactly were the two people in front of him? It was genuinely difficult to say.

Cheng Shi's eyelids twitched violently, and his expression turned slightly solemn as he looked at the two of them. If this trial had taken place somewhere else, he would have had the easiest way to expose their identities: bring out the Tongue of Lies and devour their disguises.

But he had come to this trial for the Ear of Secret Prying, and there was a high probability that the two "Cheng Shis" before him had come for the ear as well. That created an awkward situation. He couldn't easily reveal the Tongue of Lies in public, lest they shift their coveting of the ear to the tongue first.

After thinking it over, Cheng Shi's eyes shifted, and he raised the hand wearing the ring.

At that very moment, however, Cheng Shi in the trench coat snorted contemptuously. He sliced open his left arm with a dagger tainted by the aura of Decay, then transformed the entire arm into a withered, decayed limb.

On the other side, Cheng Shi in the jacket directly tossed out a die and caught it in his palm. He curled his lips into a smile and assumed a stance, clearly intending to overwhelm them with force.

For a moment, the scene fell silent again.

Cheng Shi glowered at the decayed arm that