Chapter 911 - Broken Oath (1/2)

Lin Mu's eyes went wide as he looked at a particular person. Jing Luo and a few others followed his gaze and saw him looking towards High Elder Bugi.

”W-what…?” The man questioned.

Combined with Lin Mu's earlier words, Jing Luo and others understood what had happened.

”N-No…” High Elder Bugi said, finding it very strange.

”High Elder Bugi… did you…” Patriarch You Yi muttered.

~RUMBLE~

The sound of thunder echoed once again as the entire palace started to shake.

'High Else Bugi broke the oath? How?' a few elders thought.

~BOOM~

And just as they thought that, the sound of an explosion was heard and a bolt of lightning pierced through the protective formation arrays of the sect as if they were nothing but paper and appeared within the hall.

~BANG~

~SPLAT~

It directly struck a person and reduced them to ashes before they could even say anything.

~thud~

”HEAVENS BE KIND!” High Elder Bugi cried out as he fell to the ground in fear.

He watched as the man who was standing behind him was just turned to ashes by the lightning.

~Rumble~

The rumbling of thunder got low and soon disappeared within a minute. Everyone stayed silent as they tried to comprehend what had just happened.

The silence was finally broken by a couple of confused elders as they spoke up, ”it wasn't High elder Bugi who broke the oath?”

”No… it was the man standing behind him.” Lin Mu answered, resolving their doubt.

Even Patriarch was confused but felt like the misunderstanding was reasonable. He had simply followed Lin Mu's gaze and thought that he was looking at High Elder Bugi. His cause for doubt was also understandable since high Elder Bugi had been one of the High elders who had opposition to some of his opinions.

”Who was that?” Lin Mu asked, not knowing the identity of the man.

The person had not spoken once since they had come here and thus Lin Mu had not taken much interest in them. But now that they were killed by the lightning, he knew that there was more to it and the implications of it were serious.

”That was junior elder Lao Ming, wasn't he?” Elder Boqin spoke up.

”Yes… that was him.” Patriarch You Yi confirmed.

Lin Mu furrowed his brows and looked at the man.

”You know what this means, right?” Lin Mu said in a serious tone.

”Yes…” Patriarch said before looking at some of the elders. ”I want all his interactions and connections to be investigated. I want the first report by tonight!” He ordered.

”YES PATRIARCH!” A few elders replied before leaving the hall to of their assigned task.

”That was terrifying…” Elder Wenyan said, his hands still shivering.