At the summit of Heavenly Chasm Peak.
"Three people in a row, all missing. Chen Yu must be behind it!"
"But Chen Yu is only at the seventh layer of Qi Refining. How could he kill disciples at the eighth or even ninth layer?"
"Isn't that obvious? Poison! Don't forget, Chen Yu was once the Senior Master Brother of Nine-Bend Peak and went to Black Mist Marsh as a team leader. His talent in the poison path must be exceptional!"
"...That makes sense!"
"Heh, speaking of that last trip to Black Mist Marsh, who knows what really happened? Fifty-five people went out, and only eighteen returned. A full thirty-seven disciples died! All our people died! Even a team leader at the True Disciple level was killed!
"And of those eighteen who returned, another eleven died one after another. It's downright bizarre! Chen Yu becoming one of the few remaining survivors of Black Mist Marsh definitely wasn't luck! He must have killed the three people we sent earlier!"
In a secluded corner of the summit, two shadowy gazes secretly watched Chen Yu as their owners spoke in low voices.
With his divine sense probing the area, Chen Yu "heard" every word clearly.
The Azure Void Society suspecting that he was involved in the deaths of Li Zhe and the others was entirely predictable. Chen Yu did not find it
strange. What mattered was the final part of their conversation.
"Of the eighteen who returned from Black Mist Marsh, another eleven died one after another..." Chen Yu thought. "That should have happened shortly after we returned from Black Mist Marsh. When I spoke with Xiang Baiwei back then, she also said that the White Lotus Sect had long been prepared to sacrifice most of its people."
*"But... all the Azure Void Society's