Once the ghost face was destroyed, the invisible barrier around the city naturally dissipated, and the power of the heavenly tribulation swept away the black qi within. The Silver Fairy had already retreated far away to the city wall, while the surviving cultivators flew out of the city one after another.
This time, however, they were not fleeing for their lives, but escaping the area covered by the heavenly tribulation.
Chen Lin stood behind the Silver Fairy with Qin Lingyu, watching He Huahai from afar.
Beside him stood Mu Linglong, who had just returned, carrying a corpse in her hand. It was Lv Yuan!
"Master, will Eldest Senior Brother be all right?"
Chen Lin's concern was entirely genuine.
Mu Linglong had just given him a brief explanation, so he now understood some of what had happened. It felt as though a million grass-mud horses were galloping through his mind, trampling everything in their path.
As it turned out, the discord between He Huahai and Mu Linglong, the Silver Fairy's estrangement from He Huahai, his exclusion of Chen Lin, and everything else over the past several years had all been an act put on for Lv Yuan.
And Lv Yuan had merely been a puppet possessed by that ghost face!
The master and her two disciples had done all this to lure in and destroy that so-called divine being.
He still did not know the details, and this was hardly the time to discuss them, but it already left him utterly speechless.
Far from being the greed-blinded man Chen Lin had thought him to be, He Huahai was a righteous man who had endured humiliation and shouldered a heavy burden. To help his master kill the so-called divine being, he had risked his own life, luring the ghost face into possessing