Everyone fell into silence.
They had listened to Luo Qi, made a charge for Qingshan Sect and demanded the latter to hand Jiang Ning over.
They had been such idiots. Luo Qi had played them like puppets.
"Why would Luo Qi do something like this?" asked Geng Jianba, the chief of the Bajian Sect. "He told us that he wanted to find a way out, that he only wanted the best for his disciples. Why would he...didn't he say that the way out lies outside the mountain and that there are more resources to be found outside?"
Elder Ting Feng smiled mirthlessly and shook his head. "We've all been duped. The world beyond the mountain isn't a place for us. Have you ever thought about where all that gray matter came from? What's their purpose?"
Everyone fell into silence once again.
A long moment passed before Li Xuan frowned. "Are you saying that someone created the gray matter intentionally so that we would be forced to leave the mountain?"
As soon as those words left his lips, revelation struck everyone like a flash of lightning.
Everything would make so much more sense if that were truly the case.
Who was the one who had created the gray matter though?
"Is it Mr Lang?" Li Xuan looked at Elder Ting Feng. "Is Mr Lang the one who killed Master Ting?"
Elder Ting Feng snorted and didn't say a word. The rage on his face told everyone what they needed to know though.
No one had expected Mr Lang to be the central figure and the cause of everything that had happened. Despite knowing that such a person did exist, no one could remember what he looked like at all.
Dread and horror filled them gradually as they tried desperately to recall his features. As their fear of Mr Lang grew, their reason returned to them as well.
"That scoundrel!"
"Luo Qi, that bastard! Does he know what he's doing?"
"He probably doesn't know that he's being manipulated by someone," sighed Yun Zhongke. "I've felt something was amiss but I couldn't pin down what was wrong. It seems like we've all fallen for Mr Lang's tricks. Even though we've been poisoned, our minds have regained some measure of clarity."
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