The face, concealed beneath the cascade of gray hair, slowly and laboriously lifted, allowing everyone to clearly make out his features. The man's complexion was ashen, utterly devoid of color; his square face featured sunken cheeks, yet one could still discern from his gentle brow and high-bridged nose that he must have been a handsome man in his youth.
A murmur of doubt rippled through the crowd. Could this truly be the sinner who had dragged the entire sect into the abyss? Yet no one spoke aloud; even Elder Jiu simply looked on with a placid expression.
The man’s light gray eyes fixed directly upon Jiandan, his lips curling into a forced, awkward approximation of a smile before he began to speak. His voice was harshly rasped, resembling that of a man in the twilight of his years: "Fairy Ziyan, you are a rare person of intellect. All your deductions are correct, save for one detail of which you are likely unaware: I possess a dual soul housed in a single body. The one who committed those grave wrongs is my elder brother, who is also the master soul of this vessel.
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