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?"

The rage on his

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

"That scoundrel!"

Qi, that bastard! Does he know what

down what was wrong. It seems like we've all fallen for

shook his

No one knew.

was a

him to easily gain the trust of everyone around him. He was seen as

away, they forgot that he had existed in the

to find a way out of this place," said Li Xuan. "We

Tiantian Sect and

Luo Qi's puppets and become mere tools for

"Do you know what poison it is and where the

sighed with some guilt and frustration. "It used to be our sect's

Elder Ting Feng wasn't interested in the poison's history, only in

antidote," Yun

your inner energy. Judging by the severity of our condition, it'll take us at least five years to fully neutralize

to drug them every day so that they would never regain the power

be able to gain complete and lasting control over

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