The Truth Revealed

Zhang Sanxian looked at him quietly, his pale eyes devoid of emotion, as though he were looking at a stone by the roadside.

He spoke lightly, not loudly, yet his voice carried clearly into every ear present: "Your face is ugly, sweat is pouring down your back—you... what are you panicking about?"

Rock True Person seemed to have suffered a heavy blow. He abruptly raised his head to meet those pale eyes, and at once felt a chill shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head.

Unable to hold himself up any longer, he trembled, then collapsed to the ground with a thump. His crotch rapidly darkened with wetness, giving off the stench of urine.

"Oh—I get it!" Miao Lie slapped his thigh and pointed at Rock True Person. "That Demonfire Thunder nonsense... don't tell me you set it off yourself? Look at that pathetic state of yours—you were scared stiff enough to piss yourself."

Boom—

The words were like a thunderclap, plunging the entire scene into stunned silence.

Every gaze fixed upon Rock True Person was sharp with suspicion and fury.

Tie Zhenyue, Hua Yuanqing, Shen Mobai, and the others all wore livid expressions, their eyes dark and grim.

True Person Yanghe was shaking all over with rage, his eyes nearly splitting apart, while Master Cien merely intoned a Buddhist invocation and remained silent.

As for Rock True Person, sprawled on the ground, Miao Lie's words seemed to have shattered him completely. His gaze went unfocused, and he simply lay there.

Zhang Sanxian looked down at him. His voice was calm and flat, yet carried a chilling edge. "Who ordered you to do it?"

Terrified to the point of collapse, Rock True Person blurted out instinctively under Zhang Sanxian's piercing stare: "Marshal Luo—"