Jun Family, location of the auxiliary estate dungeon.
Lu Feng followed the maid to Jun Zi Shuo's side. At that moment, Jun Zi Shuo was seated on a wide bench before one of the cells, listening to several guards report.
Seeing Lu Feng arrive, Jun Zi Shuo raised a hand to dismiss the guards around him and gestured for Lu Feng to sit on another wide bench beside him.
"Young Master Shuo summoned me here. May I ask for what matter?"
Lu Feng swept his gaze around curiously and recognized that the prisoners being brutally tortured in the cell ahead were precisely those who had carried out the earlier assassination attempt.
Qi Zhao happened to be among them as well. Yet for some reason, he had used some secret art to alter his appearance, such that even Jun Zi Shuo had failed to recognize his identity.
Jun Zi Shuo looked at Lu Feng with a faint smile and asked bluntly, "Do you know which factions today's assassins came from?"
Lu Feng was startled. "More than one faction?"
Although Qi Zhao was among them, Lu Feng had instinctively regarded him as a pawn in the Sun Family's scheme, so he had not counted the Phantom Sword Sect behind him.
Judging by Jun Zi Shuo's question, could it be that he had already uncovered everything? Could the Phantom Sword Sect truly have participated in the assassination over Qi Zhao's personal grudge?
Jun Zi Shuo smiled meaningfully. "Naturally, there was more than one faction..."
He deliberately paused, looking toward Lu Feng as though intending to hear his thoughts.
Lu Feng understood that although he and Jun Zi Shuo had formed a private friendship not long ago, given the latter's cautious nature, he still harbored a measure of distrust. He likely suspected that Lu