Si Ren pondered over this for a while, yet he still could not make head or tail of it. After all, he had not been at the scene, nor did he know what the crime scene actually looked like.
"Judging from the current structure of the Celestial Masters Mansion, the killer is either your eldest senior brother or your second senior brother.
If the killer was your eldest senior brother, then this man's mind runs far too deep to have managed to disguise himself so well.
But if it was your second senior brother, then it can only be that his cultivation went awry and drove him mad."
Celestial Master Zhang nodded.
"It certainly appears that way now, but at the time, the situation was far from so optimistic.
The eldest senior brother was the universally acknowledged next Celestial Master and enjoyed the deep trust of his fellow apprentices within the sect. Therefore, he was immediately ruled out.
The second senior brother gave his peers the impression of a cultivation fanatic whose days were consumed entirely by training, so he was also excluded.
That left only myself and the fourth junior brother as suspects.
I knew very well that I was not the killer, but the other apprentices did not see it that way.
Consequently, fourth junior brother and I were locked up separately in the prison at the back mountain, awaiting a trial after the new Celestial Master ascended.
On the very day of my master's first seven-day post-mortem anniversary, another accident occurred within the sect: the eldest …
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