Bai Yuxia had gone to Hidden Prime Peak. Cautious as he was, he had even specifically asked Elder Jiang to accompany him, to guard against any mishap. Sure enough, that trip had passed without wind or rain.
But in the end, he had not killed Ge Fei.
It was not merely because he was proud by nature and could not bring himself to draw his sword against a fool. It was also because he knew very well that a Ge Fei turned mad could never have been the true cause of the Bai Clan head's death.
At that time, the Life-less Cult Master had been beaten down to the level of a false god, while Yue Kingdom had long since received warning and made rigorous preparations. Zhang Linchuan stirred up storms in other nations mostly by catching them unprepared. With the Nation-Protecting Array, powerful armies standing guard, Gao Zheng present, and Yue Kingdom prepared, how could they possibly have let him come and go as he pleased?
The Outside World might have believed Zhang Linchuan's crimes were beyond counting, that his methods reached Heaven-Connecting heights, and that nothing he did was surprising. But Bai Yuxia, who had grown up in Yue Kingdom and understood the country to the bone, had never believed in that so-called "oversight by accident."
The evidence Fengdu had passed to him through roundabout means had merely supplemented and confirmed what he knew; it was not the key to his understanding.
He had always been pondering one question—why his father, Bai Pingfu?
The Langya Bai Clan had made tremendous contributions to the state, and continued to do so even now. His father Bai Pingfu had observed propriety and rules all his life. Though he lacked the talent to scheme for a nation, he had never made any