At this moment, Zhang Taixuan's shock and horror were exactly like Zhang Tie's when he had discovered that he had been poisoned.
Could Zhang Tie have planted an insider on Tiger-Embracing Mountain long ago and arranged for the poison to be put in the wine beforehand? That shouldn't be possible. Everything on Tiger-Embracing Mountain was entirely under his control. Everything there was in the hands of Huaiyuan Hall's Yiyang City branch. Zhang Tie had never involved himself in personnel arrangements within the clan—where could he have found an insider?
Moreover, this had been brought by one of his trusted aides. Anything served to the clan head and elders on Tiger-Embracing Mountain underwent more than one round of stringent inspection. Could Zhang Tie have controlled everyone conducting those inspections?
Zhang Taixuan's mind was in complete chaos, yet he also realized that this Soul-Severing poison seemed somewhat different from the Soul-Severing poison he knew.
The Soul-Severing poison in him had not rendered him completely unconscious. After completely severing the links between his consciousness, Battle Qi, and spiritual power, it seemed... seemed... to still allow him to speak.
"E-Elder Mu Shen... what do you mean by this?" Though Zhang Taixuan was horrified within, he still maintained a measure of composure on the surface as he questioned Zhang Tie. "If you want the position of clan head, I'll yield it to you. Why would you need to poison me...?"
Zhang Tie shook his head. With a flick of his hand, he placed a storage bead on the table and let it roll before Zhang Taixuan.
That storage bead was precisely the one that had been inside the body of the death warrior who answered to Zhang Taixuan.
"This is yours. I'm returning it to you..."
At the sight of that storage bead, a flicker