Silence fell inside the cave. Huyan Dao lowered his eyes in thought while everyone watched him.
None of them knew what he would decide. They were all waiting for his final decision.
After a long while, Huyan Dao said slowly, "My position remains the same. This is only your side of the story, and I need to verify whether it is true. If the Suyuan Sect really comes to silence you after learning of this, then I will believe what you said."
Shi Chun and the others breathed sighs of relief. That amounted to an agreement to cooperate.
"Very well. We'll follow your arrangements, Brother Huyan." Shi Chun agreed with a perfectly straight face, inwardly amused. Putting himself in the other man's shoes, he had known Huyan Dao would never withstand the lure of first place.
"Wait for my arrangements." Huyan Dao nodded slightly, then turned his head and instructed, "Junior Brother Mao, find them somewhere to stay."
The man beside him, named Mao Zhong, immediately extended a hand to Shi Chun and the others. "Please follow me."
Shi Chun and his companions promptly covered themselves with the tarpaulin again and took their leave.
"Stay a moment, Brother Chu." Huyan Dao stopped Chu Jingtang, who had been about to leave with them.
Chu Jingtang could only stop and approach him. "What instructions do you have, Brother Huyan?"
Huyan Dao waited until Shi Chun and the others had jumped out of the cave entrance before asking, "That beautiful woman is their junior sister? I remember the Suyuan Sect sending word that Wang and Gao's junior sister had been violated and killed by someone from the Life Continent. They told everyone not to let that Bai fellow go if they encountered him, or something along those lines."
"Bai Shuchuan," Chu Jingtang supplied