Gus laughed. "Haha. I definitely wouldn't lie to you, Mr. Lawrence."

Suddenly, Frank found Gus' attitude toward him weird. After all, Gus should be on the Soranos' side and therefore hostile toward Frank. After all, half the reason Zam Sorano was killed was because of Frank. And yet, Gus was not showing any enmity toward Frank now if anything, he was exceedingly polite, even kind, as if he were just an ordinary younger man.

"How did you sustain your injury, Mr. Zeller?" he asked nonetheless.

Gus smiled. He could tell that Frank's question was clearly loaded and simply admitted, "I was ambushed one night, leaving my organs and meridian nexus in pieces. Thankfully, someone saved me from the ruins."

"Someone saved you?" Frank repeated softly.

"Yes." Gus' gaze turned distant in recollection. "It was a young girl... a kind one. She fed me a golden pill that saved my life, even helping me improve to Ascendant rank."

life and cultivation was saved, I was struck by Hundred Bane Sect's Every Flavor Palm. Whenever I ingest a food with flavor, my organs will burn... It's

that technique. All Gus had to

just so happened that his antidotes were

Mr. Lawrence. If I'm not mistaken, you'd be interested in asking why I bailed you out when Willy

nodded solemnly, candid since Gus

at Frank. "Like a lot of other families and factions, the Soranos sent me to South Sea and partook in the siege of Mystic Sky

I was at the mercy of fate,

lied to. Mystic Sky Sect and their apprentices were no evildoers, but individuals of valor and compassion.

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