Just as Su Wenzhou finished speaking and the others turned to look at him, he stared at the spot where Li Jiuchen had been sitting cross-legged. It was as though everything there had been a dream, and now that the dream had ended, nothing remained.
Li Yan's expression darkened at once. The remark had sounded like a simple sigh over their narrow escape from death, but he saw Yun Qinghua's and Ling Xingkong's expressions change at those words. The looks they then cast his way had become different.
Su Wenzhou was vicious and scheming. Given that he and Li Jiuchen had already been fighting each other to the death in the outside world, how could he possibly mourn Li Jiuchen? If given the chance, he would certainly have killed Li Jiuchen with his own hands.
Yet at precisely this moment, he had voiced regret over Li Jiuchen's death. How could those two fail to hear the implication in his words? What did he mean by "almost"? He meant that they had almost died again!
He was pointing out that, in the previous trial, Zhang Ming had also discovered the clue and cleared it at the "very end." They had already suspected Zhang Ming of harboring ill intentions then, and now the second trial had once again been cleared through Zhang Ming's intervention!
Had Zhang Ming found the clue ahead of time again? Since he had already shown an intent to scheme against others, had he once more kept it to himself, hoping to see whether an opportunity would arise to plot against someone?
And hadn't something indeed gone wrong, causing Li Jiuchen to die beneath the tribulation fire in an instant? Why had the others survived? That was precisely the point of Su Wenzhou's deliberately chosen words, "at the final