Yan Chihuo's heart stirred. Those four are Lu Tianyi's companions? They chased all the way here too?
The middle-aged man in purple said, "It's impossible that Lu Tianyi was playing tricks. The situation must have changed. We happened to fight those six-legged lizards and missed the appointed time, so they entered this Void Fragment Cavern. Any cultivator would be unwilling to remain a pet of the Demon Race forever. What do we cultivate so painstakingly for? Isn't it to roam free and unrestrained?"
The short, burly man said, "That may be true, but many human pets have been tortured by the Demon Race until their spirit and resolve are utterly worn away. They only want to muddle through and steal a meager existence—where would they still have a cultivator's bearing? Lu Tianyi may not be an exception. If monsters forced him, it would be perfectly normal for him to set us up."
The middle-aged man in purple said, "Lu Tianyi contacted us of his own accord. Why would the monsters choose this critical moment, when they were about to take the Purple Mysterious Jade, to harm the few of us? It makes no sense."
The beautiful Taoist nun said, "Everyone saw that exit. Could those monsters have deliberately laid a smokescreen, while actually fleeing long ago by the way they came?"
The middle-aged man in purple said, "I considered that as well, but it should be impossible. We all saw the corpses of the other two Three Immortals of Spirit Capital, as well as Lu Tianyi's master, the Nine-Headed Bird. There must have been internal strife among those monsters. After that infighting, the Bloodsucking Demon Bat, the Golden-Haired Hou, and Lu Tianyi surely no longer trusted one another. If any one of them deliberately laid a smokescreen, it would arouse