While Yan Ciyun turned the tables and angrily branded Ning Wangshu a spy for the Ancient Demon Clan, the cultivators gathered in the Ancient Demon Abyss stirred uneasily.
Many couldn't help whispering about what Ning Wangshu had just said.
"I know the people from Niu Family Village he mentioned. They were all at the Dividing Soul Stage, and I heard they really did all die in battle a few days ago."
"Mm, I remember them too. They seemed to have arrived at the Ancient Demon Abyss three years ago. They fought for three years without a single one falling, yet a few days ago they suddenly all died. I didn't think much of it before, but now that I think about it, it really is suspicious!"
"Exactly. Could it be just as that man said—that the people from Niu Family Village were deliberately set up and killed by the Young Sect Master of Qianyuan Dao Sect, using the Ancient Demon Clan as cover?"
"It's not impossible. I remember there were five or six of them. If one or two had died in battle, that wouldn't be strange, but for all of them to die at once is rather unreasonable. After all, although the Ancient Demon Clan's attacks have grown fiercer and more frequent lately, we haven't suffered any especially heavy losses. It just doesn't add up..."
The crowd murmured among themselves.
The elders of Niu Family Village had fought in the Ancient Demon Abyss for three years, after all, so plenty of people knew of them.
Before, nobody had given it much thought. Most had barely even had time to notice who had died. But now that Ning Wangshu had brought the matter into the open, people started thinking it over and found it rather suspicious.
The murmurs reached Yan