As everyone offered their congratulations, Bai Ji alone sat collapsed on the ground, his face ashen as death.
"It succeeded... How could it have succeeded?"
"How was that possible? No one had succeeded for so many years. How could someone succeed this time...?"
He muttered with a face full of unwillingness.
Just then, Yi Feng suddenly walked toward him.
He looked down at him from above, his face dark and gloomy.
"You're Bai Ji?"
Yi Feng interrupted Bai Ji's muttering.
Bai Ji raised his head and immediately met Yi Feng's icy gaze.
That look filled him with terror.
"I... I am..."
He stammered his reply. Though he found the outcome before him hard to accept, he understood that he absolutely could not afford to offend Yi Feng now.
"You tampered with the inheritance?"
Yi Feng demanded in a low voice.
At those words, Bai Ji's heart skipped a beat.
In his view, since Yi Feng had entered the inheritance and come out alive, he must have known that Bai Ji had tampered with it. There was no way he could talk his way out of this.
"Spare my life, Senior! Spare my life!"
Bai Ji hurriedly kowtowed on the ground and wailed through tears, "I was possessed by the devil for a moment and committed this grave mistake. Please spare this worthless dog life of mine, Senior!"
"So you really did tamper with it."
Yi Feng's anger immediately surged. He reached out and lifted Bai Ji from the ground like a chick, then snarled, "Since it really was you, answer me this: where is the tampering you did? Where is it?"
"Uh, uh... Huh?"
Bai Ji had still been thinking of how to beg for mercy, but Yi Feng's words left him utterly dumbfounded.
"Y-you didn't run into it?"
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