Harold, already crumbling in chaos at that moment, frantically tried to find an excuse for himself, but Elder Baggin had interjected him with a deep frown and a sharp stare. “Shut up right now! Since Jack is this strong, then all questions have been answered. There’s no black-clothed man, and you were threatened at all. If Jack hadn’t surprised us with his strength, your plan would’ve gone perfectly. Jack would’ve died on Holy Cloud Mountain, and you’d rid yourself of a source of hatred. Since you weren’t by Jack’s side at the time, the higher-ups wouldn’t be suspicious of you at all! It’s just your poor luck that the assassin you sent was no match for Jack, and your plan failed horrendously. Jack, did you deliberately place the corpse where people would pass by?”

Jack nodded. “If I had just spoken the truth, no one would have believed me. It was better if I put the corpse in front of everyone and had Elder Eliot investigate. I was sure that Harold thought his plan was flawless, that it wouldn’t be traced back to him at all.”

Johnson collapsed on the floor as he mumbled, “So there really wasn’t anyone else…”

had plagued Johnson for a long time. Michael’s death had been far too strange. Even after so much trouble, no one else was found at Holy Cloud Mountain at all, so who had

placed that

though they had crafted a lie, Johnson had been bogged down with fear, swallowed with his worry that the killer behind the scenes would pop up and

of his right hand, and the pale faced Harold fell to the floor. Even if he tried to give himself any excuses, Harold had no way of saving

to look at Elder Rick before he let out a laugh. “Elder Rick, do you have anything else to say? Do you want to find more

eyes slightly as he shot Jack a cold

Jack, however, could careless.

precisely because of that that Elder Rick would not be able to act against Jack easily. As long as Jack managed to get to a high-enough position, Elder

“So that’s how things were. I can’t believe I was actually fooled by the two of them. They seemed so sincere, so I had thought that everything was true. Alas, I was

any dirt and responsibility. It was as if all those insulting

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