Chen Fan's voice was calm, yet his tone brimmed with sharpness and chill.
The surrounding experts all fell silent as cicadas in winter.
Chen Wudao drew a deep breath. With a gloomy expression, he nodded, then walked straight toward the restrained Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao's mouth twitched, his expression strange. He displayed none of the bearing expected of a Chang Sheng expert.
"Tower Master Chen, you absolutely cannot believe Zhao Kong's words. Everything he said is a lie!"
In truth, for a Chang Sheng expert to lose his composure so thoroughly—and to have previously attempted to flee—was enough to reveal that something was wrong.
Chen Wudao's face was icy. "I had always wondered: with your talent, it would already have been a blessing for you to break through to Chang Sheng. How did you cultivate so quickly to the second level of Chang Sheng?"
Clearly, there was a problem with how he had broken through to Chang Sheng so quickly!
At those words, Zhao Yao's mouth twitched. "I... happened to obtain a powerful Saint-grade medicinal pill..."
"What pill was it?" Chen Wudao asked again.
Zhao Yao hesitated once more before hurriedly saying,
"I do not know exactly what kind of pill it was... That is not the important part!"
"Tower Master Chen, you must remain rational. You cannot simply take the casual words of a traitor from my Zhao clan and decide that everything he said is true, can you? I had been stuck at the first level of Chang Sheng for who knew how long. It is perfectly normal for me to have encountered a fortuitous opportunity and made a breakthrough."
"Yes, evidence is still needed." Chen Wudao nodded. Then he raised his hand and slapped Zhao Yao on the head!
Although Chen Wudao had once shattered his own