"Eliminate a traitor?"
Shen Lingyue frowned slightly and said coldly, "This traitor you speak of wouldn't happen to be Princess Taiping and Lu Changfeng, would it?"
The moment he said that, the atmosphere on the mountaintop grew delicate.
Of the seven people present, more than half had dealt with Lu Changfeng.
Xiao Changchun bore a grudge against Lu Changfeng over Wu Sansi, while Shen Lingyue and Xiao Juelou had received favors from him. Li Lingkui was also at odds with Lu Changfeng and had even been manipulated into serving as a borrowed blade against Dragon-Slaying City. Yet no matter what, he had to admit that Lu Changfeng could never be called a "traitor." His deeds outweighed those of countless loyal ministers and worthy generals!
Wang Shaoyuan, Cui Han, and True Person Xuancheng had never met Lu Changfeng, but they had long known his name.
Resisting the Göktürks, suppressing killing intent, devising strategies, plotting Wu Sansi's downfall...
Anyone shameless enough to brand such a man a traitor could hardly expect others to be shameless enough to believe it.
They exchanged glances, and an awkward silence settled over them.
Heart Demon Yu Zhou, however, smiled.
"You are all intelligent men."
He stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze drifting leisurely over them. "At our level, talking about traitors and loyalty, right and wrong, is rather tiresome. I misspoke."
He slowly raised his right hand, and a ball of deep blue light appeared out of thin air in his palm.
Within that glow, the shape of a pill was faintly visible, shimmering with iridescent light and giving off a subtle, unusual fragrance.
"A human life between heaven and earth is like a white colt flashing past a crack-gone in an instant."
His voice echoed softly over the summit, half recitation, half