Chapter 138: Fisherman Xuhan
"A mole? That’s quite unlikely, Attendant Xuhan. If the demonic expert in your theory is as powerful as we think, he wouldn’t need to cooperate with a mole to justify the existence of the town to the sect.
"It would still be suspicious, not to mention attracting unnecessary attention over such a long period of time. The portal revealed itself quite recently, but the town has existed here for a much longer time.
"The only reasonable way to explain the existence of the illusory town is by following my guess. Maybe a powerful expert was in seclusion here, and Pine Town was the manifestation of his cultivation technique. Perhaps the sect even knew about it!
"Regardless, our movements seem to have disturbed whatever the illusory town was meant to achieve. It made them end their spell, retracting the illusory town and its people. Hence, all the townsfolk who had been turned into zombies in the fog disappeared alongside the town.
"As for why we didn’t lose our memories, I have an explanation for that as well. We were unaffected because of the restrictive laws and spiritual barriers protecting everything inside the Holy Land, especially the living beings. The undeads could not be counted as such.
"Besides, if the expert had any malice towards us, like the demonic cultivators of your theory, wouldn’t he wait for us to come out so that he could deal with us personally?"
Xuanyuan Zhou refuted Han Xuhan’s theory nimbly, leaving him speechless. He had not expected to lose in a purely analytical argument. But her theory did fit the situation more neatly than his own.
This was also a good thing for him. Ever since Mu Ran and Xuanyuan Zhou had realized the depths of his scheming mind in the Holy Land of Laws, the two of them had become much warier of him, displaying a tight-lipped attitude whenever he was around.
It made Han Xuhan feel like the golden thighs he had worked so hard to hug were slowly slipping out of his grasp.