"What? You dare lie to me?" At last, a terrible expression surfaced on the gray-robed middle-aged man's calm face. He reached out and beckoned, pulling the middle-aged, plump cultivator off the ground and clamping a hand around his neck. Given his experience, even he could hardly believe that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could be so powerful.
"I-I swear every word I said is true. I don't know who those three were, either. Especially that black-faced young man. At the time, I was with Second Young Master and more than a dozen treasure-seeking cultivators, and even with all of us attacking them, nearly half of us died or were injured. Wang Baiming and the others died by that man's blade. Before I-I could even react, Second Young Master had already been struck by his golden blade. I thought I'd fight the man to the death, so I searched and searched, but I still haven't found him. I had no face to come back and face the head of the household. Second Young Master died so miserably! You can ask Wu Kong and Luo Dafeng, too. If a single word I've said is false, may the heavens strike me with five thunders!"
"Y-yes, Head of the Household. Not a word he said just now was false. We wanted to find those men and fight them to the death, but we never managed to find them. You must avenge Second Young Master!" Wu Kong and Luo Dafeng felt their hearts tighten at his words and put on expressions of unbearable grief.
"I think your desire for revenge is a lie. Since Tao'er died, you knew you couldn't come back and answer for it, so you planned to run away instead, didn't you?" the gray-robed middle-aged man said sinisterly.
"H-Head of the Household, we