"Well..." Zhang Xuanhe stiffened.
He racked his brains but failed to come up with a decent excuse. In the end, he could only grit his teeth and say:
"I seem to have forgotten to put out my alchemy furnace before leaving. I must hurry back and check. If it explodes, that would be trouble."
"Explode, my ass!" Chun Xiaobai nearly laughed in exasperation.
"All of you, stop right there!"
"I'm telling you, it's too late to run now. If this Great King gets caught later, I'll say you five were the masterminds. Lu Qingshan can testify!"
"Uh..." All five froze on the spot.
This brat even knew their identities. If he really implicated them, not one of them would get away!
Chun Xiaobai turned back and angrily rebuked Lu Qingshan:
"What the hell are these five you brought me? Did all their Spirit Transformation cultivation go to the dogs? How can they be such cowards?"
"Ahem..." Lu Qingshan hunched his neck and coughed twice. "Well... I don't know either."
The faces of Zhang Xuanhe and the other four instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
They wanted to slap Lu Qingshan dead.
Not only had this old bastard tricked them into courting death, he was now standing there pretending to be innocent!
But they feared making a commotion and drawing people from the Spirit Origin Sect, so they could only force their anger back down into their bellies.
Just you wait!
If we make it back alive this time, we'll settle accounts with Lu Qingshan properly!
"Enough. All of you shut up," Chun Xiaobai snapped again in a low voice.
"Remember, do as this Great King tells you. As long as you don't act recklessly, nothing will go wrong."
"Exactly." Bai Jin'er nodded along and softly reassured