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?"

Feng snorted and didn't say a word. The rage on his face

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

"That scoundrel!"

Qi, that bastard! Does

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

is terrifying." Geng Jianba shook his

No one knew.

was a complete

an ability that allowed him to easily gain the trust of everyone around him. He was seen as an old and trusted friend

turned away, they forgot that he had existed in the first

way out of this place,"

Tiantian Sect and Luo Qi's rule.

their sects to become Luo Qi's puppets and become mere tools for his

Feng looked at everyone. "Do you know what poison

Dust," Yun Zhongke sighed with some guilt and

antidote?" Elder Ting Feng wasn't interested in the poison's

antidote," Yun

Judging by the severity of our condition, it'll take

Luo Qi wouldn't go easy on them. He would continue to drug them every day so that they would never regain the

gain complete and lasting control over the six sects

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