"Coward."
Liu Wenjian stared at the spot where Eternal Night had vanished, casually extinguishing the violet-black flames before speaking coldly.
Then, without the slightest fear, he met the gazes cast his way by the demon elders and said evenly:
"Thank you all for coming to assist. Liu Wenjian is deeply grateful."
"Now that the target has disappeared without a trace, does anyone possess the means to pinpoint his location?"
The demon elders' expressions stiffened once more.
What did Liu Wenjian mean by this?
Was he planning to simply ignore the accusations from earlier?
He could not even be bothered to offer an explanation?
Among the demons, a grotesque head covered in bone spikes shot forward and let out a sinister cackle at Liu Wenjian.
"Liu Wenjian, now that things have come to this, what is there left for you to deny?"
"Just admit it already!"
"That way, the Council of Elders won't have to expend so much effort investigating, and you won't have to suffer for nothing in the end."
Liu Wenjian tilted his head slightly and looked at Elder Skull, whose entire face was practically screaming impatience, then chuckled.
"From the sound of it, Elder Skull, you believe Lu Li's one-sided claims?"
"What a pity... I'm not the spy he claims I am. Otherwise, I really would like to admit it, just to fulfill Elder Skull's wholehearted devotion to the Holy Domain."
"You..." Skull was about to retort when he suddenly realized that he had been too hasty.
There really were too many suspicious points.
First, Lu Li's personal appearance and his exposing Liu Wenjian's identity as a spy were themselves full of contradictions.
According to his earlier deductions, Lu Li and Liu Wenjian should have been on the same side!
Even if they were not striving toward the