Li Zhe quickly rose to his feet and scanned his surroundings warily.
He looked at Chen Yu with suspicion and guardedness.
"Were you the one playing tricks just now?" he asked.
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As he spoke, he sensed the spiritual power fluctuations within Chen Yu. Just as the organization's records stated, his cultivation was at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
"Playing tricks?" Chen Yu thought for a moment. "I suppose so."
"So it was you!"
The thought that a mere seventh-layer Qi Refining disciple had just led him around by the nose sent anger surging through Li Zhe. Still, everything about this was strange, so he had not completely lost his reason. Instead, he asked Chen Yu warily, "How did you do it?"
"Just a few little tricks." Chen Yu asked again, "Why has your Azure Void Society suddenly invited me to join now?"
Little tricks?
What sort of little tricks could do something like that?
Could it be... poison?
Nine-Bend Peak was under Elder Yun and belonged to the Poison Path lineage.
Had he already fallen victim, without even noticing, to poison this brat had prepared in advance? Some poison that caused mental confusion and affected the five senses? That was possible.
The organization had every record of Chen Yu from his days as a registered disciple until now. Chen Yu could not possibly have concealed anything further about his cultivation.
Poison. It had to be poison!
That was the only possibility.
Having "figured out" what had happened earlier, Li Zhe looked at Chen Yu with hostility. Even his tone grew arrogant as he answered, "It's an honor that the organization thinks highly enough of you. Do you know how much you stand to gain by joining the Azure Void