King of Creation

Chapter 695: Chapter 686 It’s Just a Joke

“Old Hou, are you becoming more useless by the day? You can’t even hold your liquor cup steady…” Seeing Hou Ba shatter his liquor cup, Ghost Shadow Ful Lang pointed at him and burst into unrestrained laughter.

However, he only laughed halfway before he froze, realizing that something was off about Hou Ba’s expression.

Shattering a liquor cup wouldn’t normally elicit such a look of utter terror.

It wasn’t just Hou Ba; even Yu Xian, sitting diagonally across from him, suddenly straightened up, his expression turning extremely grave.

Turning his head slowly, Ful Lang’s eyeballs bulged out suddenly, his face mirroring the same horror!

“Ye… Hall Master Ye, when did you come out?” After the initial panic subsided, Hou Ba quickly calmed down, signaling with his eyes to Ful Lang and Yu Xian. Both were old hands in the Jianghu and immediately reacted, adjusting their expressions to appear normal.

But no matter how they tried to disguise it, the shock in their eyes was difficult to conceal.

The trap they had set earlier was supposed to be inescapable.

The difficulty of surviving attacks from demon beasts and the forces of nature was so high that even an Establishment King of the Establishment Realm might suffer severe injuries if ensnared; yet, Ye Zhen, a martial artist at the first-stage Vein Forging Realm, had escaped alive. How could they believe this?

“What, if I didn’t come out, were you planning to dig out my brain and claim credit?” Ye Zhen scoffed coldly.

He had overheard the entire conversation just now, and he could confirm that the person behind the plot against him was Zhu Ling, the Head of the Inner Affairs Hall.

As for why Zhu Ling would target him, Ye Zhen suspected that it was highly likely that Zhu Ling blamed the death of his son on him.

On this point, Ye Zhen was very clear.

Such matters did not require evidence; suspicion alone, perhaps stirred by the insinuation of one or two schemers, was enough to direct blame towards Ye Zhen.

Moreover, the Spiritual Power Trap that Ful Lang mentioned as having been set up inside the cave was indeed ingenious. It sealed off a main passageway making it fundamentally impossible to cross without triggering the trap.

However, while his trap sealed the passageway, it couldn’t seal the ground beneath it. For others, the unavoidable Spiritual Power Trap was, for Ye Zhen, merely a matter of using Earth Escape to cover a distance of several meters.

Ye Zhen’s words made Hou Ba, Ful Lang, and Yu Xian’s complexions change simultaneously.

“You heard everything?” Yu Xian’s face was one of shock!

“What do you think?” retorted Ye Zhen. “How much did Zhu Ling pay you to kill me?”

While Ye Zhen did not respond, his question implied the answer.