"Chu Kuangren!"
Yuan Xian spoke in a grave tone.
Hearing this, the Mountain-Sea Tower Master visibly froze.
"What? How could it be him?!"
"Senior Brother Li Ze was once a member of the Nine-Headed Tribe. After descending the mountain, I went to investigate the Nine-Headed Tribe. Although I found no useful clues, when I heard that Gu Changge, the Qingyun Dynasty's Crown Prince, had rebelled and stolen the Nine Infants Pearl, I wondered whether this might have something to do with Senior Brother Li Ze."
"So I investigated in secret and learned that Chu Kuangren had visited the Qingyun Dynasty during that period. He was also the one who recovered the Nine Infants Pearl, and it is very likely that he took it back not from Gu Changge, but from Senior Brother Li Ze."
"I am eighty percent certain that Senior Brother Li Ze was killed by Chu Kuangren," Yuan Xian explained at length, speaking with great confidence.
After listening, the Mountain-Sea Tower Master's expression turned exceedingly ugly. An unimaginably terrifying aura erupted from him. "Chu Kuangren, I originally had no intention of joining this encirclement campaign, but you dared to kill my beloved disciple. Unless you die, the hatred in my heart will never subside!!"
Elsewhere.
At the Death Sacred Hall.
The Death Hall Master, shrouded entirely in gray robes and giving off a strange aura of death, was holding a meeting.
Everyone was discussing the campaign to encircle and annihilate the Mystic Heaven Sect.
"Hall Master, Chu Kuangren must die!"
An elder said, "If he does not die, he will monopolize all future opportunities to become an Emperor. No one else will have a chance."
"Indeed."
"The Great Age of Strife cannot accommodate such an anomaly."
"Furthermore, the Saint Hall's previous Dharma Protector, Blacklight Saint, once possessed