Chapter 93: Confrontation
The matter with the demons had been resolved—but the problem had actually gotten worse.
The children were still missing.
Those ten or so children from the village couldn’t have simply vanished into thin air. If they weren’t taken by demons, then who could have done it?
“Fellow cultivators…” Among the four exorcists, the highest-ranked was Master Chen of the One Flower level, the same rank as the old man. His expression was grim as he spoke:
“I believe the key to this matter still lies with that Young Master Qi.”
Yun Jiao nodded. Indeed, it was that scumbag Qi who had claimed the children were taken by demons, leading them up the mountain. If she hadn’t personally met Ji Li, and if the snake demon hadn’t captured the exorcists, they would have assumed the demons were the culprits.
But now it was obvious: Qi Cheng had deliberately lured them there, hoping to make them his blades—borrowing others’ hands to do his killing.
He’d first deceived Ji Li into giving up her inner core, and now he wanted to use the missing-children incident to have the exorcists eliminate her for him.
“It seems we’ll have to confront Qi Cheng directly,” the old man suggested.