"I know everyone is deeply concerned about me and wants to know exactly what happened these past few days. But there is not much I can tell you right now. The only thing I can tell you is that when I went to Wild Lake Cottage that day, a moment of carelessness capsized my boat in the gutter—I fell into someone else's trap and was poisoned with Soul-Severing poison. I have been trapped these past few days. The mastermind was after me, as well as the Zhang Family's Panacea Potions and Torch Oil. Retainer Liu, who was killed by Zhang Gui in Golden Crow City, was a piece the mastermind had planted in the Golden Crow Merchant Group long ago. Yesterday, I had only just escaped using a secret art and killed one of that mastermind's lackeys..."
Zhang Tie had considered these words for a long time. He did not wish to hide anything from friends and those around him who had sincerely helped him, such as Mountain-Bearing True Person, but there were matters he could not explain in too much detail at this time. Thus, he could only give them a general account for now.
"Does the Sect Master know who the mastermind is?" Mountain-Bearing True Person continued to ask.
"This matter is very complicated. There may be more than one mastermind. It cannot be explained in just a sentence or two. There are things that even I do not fully understand or know for certain right now. In a few days, I will give everyone an explanation!"
The knights present all possessed senses and intelligence beyond those of ordinary people. Seeing the hesitation in Zhang Tie's words, they knew that he seemed to have something difficult to speak of and that it was inconvenient for him to say