"Are you all right? Why not stay in the Heavenly Palace until your wounds heal?" Chief Steward Zuo Qiu asked without expression.
Tang Changsheng shook his head. "No need. There's something very strange about this assassination attempt."
Chief Steward Zuo Qiu gave him a long look. "We will get to the bottom of this and give you an explanation."
That much was only right. The dignity of the Heavenly Palace was at stake.
Tang Changsheng nodded slightly. He certainly had no intention of staying in the Heavenly Palace to recover.
There were far too many questions surrounding this attempt on his life. Once word got out, it was bound to stir up a towering storm!
Sure enough, within half an hour, news reached the Hall of All Immortals. The hall fell frighteningly silent.
If Tang Changsheng had seen it, he would surely have despaired of relations between the Divine Way and the Immortal Dao...
If the Hall of All Immortals had erupted into argument, with everyone in an uproar, the matter would have been easier to handle.
But this silence meant something else: nearly everyone in the hall suspected the Heavenly Venerable.
The Heavenly Venerable could not bring himself to seize the Bagua Mirror from Tang Changsheng outright, so he had staged the whole affair...
Who else could arrange for a Divine General of the Heavenly Palace to assassinate Tang Changsheng?
It was simply impossible.
That was Fairy Yunqing and the others' first thought. Yet their fear of the Heavenly Venerable kept every one of them silent!
It showed just how deeply they distrusted and feared him.
Their silence was a danger in itself!
Tang Changsheng, however, did not believe the Heavenly Venerable had arranged it.
From what he had seen, the Heavenly Venerable had reached a point where he