454: Chapter 454 A single sentence reveals the truth, the traitor is exposed.

"Leaking air?" Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan had just recovered from his extreme joy and was left completely bewildered by this remark. He instinctively looked at the surrounding canyon walls.

The Formation was operating normally, and the gray-white light of the Lesser Yin Law was tightly blocking the thick fog outside.

Nothing was broken.

Saintess Lin Qinghan was also stunned. She gathered her courage and asked, "Senior, do you mean that the Restriction of this Moon Burial Valley has a problem?"

Gu Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back, looking at this group of people as if they were fools.

"The Restriction is fine; what's wrong is your brains."

These words gave no Face at all.

Several hot-tempered Elders wanted to lash out on the spot, but hindered by the "Withered Meets Spring" technique Gu Changsheng had just displayed, they forced themselves to swallow their anger.

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan's expression shifted.

He was, after all, a Sect Leader who had lived for a great many years, and he immediately caught the subtext.

"Senior, please enlighten me." Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan cupped his fists, his attitude very humble.

Gu Changsheng walked over to a flat rock nearby, sat down, and crossed his legs.

"Your Hidden Moon Sect has been chased like stray dogs by the Fire God Temple for these past few days, fleeing everywhere. Have you never wondered why, every time you relocate your stronghold, even though the route is kept so secret, the people from the Fire God Temple can accurately set up an ambush halfway through?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire clearing instantly went silent.

Saintess Lin Qinghan's whole body trembled.

The tragic scenes from a few days ago flashed through her mind.

She had led several elite Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters to evacuate from the secret stronghold in Cangyun Province. That route had been personally determined by the Sect Leader, and apart from a few core Elders, no one knew about it.

Yet, less than thirty miles after leaving the city, they had plunged straight into an encirclement by the Fire God Temple.

If it hadn't been for her Junior Brothers risking their lives to hold off the enemies, she would never have lived to meet Gu Changsheng.

"That's right..." Saintess Lin Qinghan muttered to herself, her voice trembling, "How could the Fire God Temple know our retreat route so clearly?"

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan's expression instantly turned extremely grim.

He had previously been on the verge of death from his severe injuries, and his mind had been entirely focused on how to preserve the last embers of the Hidden Moon Sect; he simply hadn't had the energy to think about these things carefully. Now, awakened by Gu Changsheng's words, cold sweat broke out on his back.

For these past ten thousand years, although the Hidden Moon Sect had been suppressed by the Three Great God Lords, it had barely managed to survive by relying on its secretive way of operating. This time, the Fire God Temple's extermination campaign had not only come suddenly, but it was also absurdly accurate.

Every branch and every secret outpost had been uprooted.

This wasn't some divine warning; there was a traitor!

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan turned his head abruptly, his sharp gaze sweeping over the Faces of the core Elders present one by one.

Those who were struck by his gaze either lowered their heads or showed expressions of shock.

"Sect Leader! Do not listen to this brat's nonsense!"

The goat-bearded Elder who had just been knocked to the ground by Gu Changsheng, namely Elder Sun, suddenly jumped up.

He pointed at Gu Changsheng, shouting with a red Face and thick neck: "This brat's background is unknown, and he doesn't even have a shred of Spiritual Qi on him; who knows what his intentions are! He is sowing discord, wanting to make us, the Hidden Moon Sect, kill each other!"

While shouting, Elder Sun moved closer to the other Elders.

"Fellow Elders, think about it! We have lived and died together in the Hidden Moon Sect for so many years; who would go and be a lackey for the Fire God Temple? Although this brat just healed the Sect Leader, it might just be a bitter trick sent by the Fire God Temple!"

Several Elders looked at each other, their expressions beginning to waver.

"Elder Sun makes sense; this young man appeared too coincidentally."

"That's right, accusing us of having a traitor the moment he arrived; isn't this just trying to disrupt our morale?"

Saintess Lin Qinghan was anxious and stood up to refute: "Elder Sun! Senior just wiped out three third-rank gods outside the valley with a wave of his hand! If he were a person from the Fire God Temple, how could he kill his own people!"

Elder Sun sneered, his Face full of disdain.

"Girl Qinghan, you have really been bewitched by this brat! Three third-rank gods? Do you think those are cabbages on the street! Even in our Sect Leader's prime, he would have to give a wide berth upon encountering one third-rank god. He killed them with a wave of his hand? Ask everyone present; who believes it!"

The surrounding sect members shook their heads one after another.

It was indeed too ridiculous.

Third-rank gods were the ceiling-level existence in the Mingliu Realm. Killing three with a wave of his hand? This had already exceeded the limits of their cognition.

Seeing that everyone was on his side, Elder Sun felt even more confident.

He drew his long sword from the ground, the tip pointing at Gu Changsheng once again.

"Brat, I don't care what demonic technique you used to heal the Sect Leader. If you don't explain yourself clearly today, don't even think about walking out of this Moon Burial Valley alive!"

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan furrowed his brows and raised a hand to suppress the commotion of the crowd.

He looked at Gu Changsheng, his tone grave: "Senior, this concerns the survival of my Hidden Moon Sect. Since you have spoken, you must have seen something. I ask that Senior provide some guidance."

Gu Changsheng sat on the rock, watching the jumping Elder Sun, and only found it amusing.

This acting, if placed in the Nine Provinces Cultivation World, wouldn't even qualify to survive three chapters.

"Guidance is not quite the word."

Gu Changsheng brushed the dust off his sleeves, "I just think you bunch of people are pitifully stupid."

He raised his right hand.

"You are shouting the loudest, so let's start with you."

As soon as his voice fell, Gu Changsheng flicked his finger.

A cyan-gold glimmer, almost impossible to capture with the naked eye, instantly crossed a distance of more than ten zhang and struck Elder Sun's chest directly.

Bang!

Elder Sun was struck as if by lightning and stumbled back three or four steps.

The lapel of his chest was torn apart directly by this surge of Qi.

"Clatter."

Something fell out from his embrace, hitting the hard white jade brick with a crisp sound.

Everyone's gaze was instantly drawn to it.

It was a palm-sized jade talisman.

It was entirely crimson, with complex divine Dao runes carved on its surface. And in the very center of the jade talisman, a burning flame totem was clearly imprinted.

That was the unique mark of the Fire God Temple!

The air in the entire clearing seemed to freeze at this moment.

The surrounding torches swayed violently in the wind, reflecting Elder Sun's paper-white Face.

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan's eyes instantly turned red.

He stared fixedly at the jade talisman on the ground, his whole body trembling.

"Transmission jade talisman..." Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan gritted his teeth, his voice sounding as if it were squeezed out from the cracks of a stone, "The Fire God Temple's transmission jade talisman! Sun Changming, how do you explain this!"

Several Elders who had originally been standing beside Elder Sun scattered instantly, as if avoiding a plague god.

"Sun Changming! You beast! It really was you!"

"You actually betrayed the Hidden Moon Sect! I will kill you!"

A group of sect members, their eyes red, drew their weapons one after another and surrounded Elder Sun.

Elder Sun looked at the jade talisman on the ground, his mind a blank.

He had hidden this jade talisman extremely deeply, and had even placed a Restriction to isolate the aura on it, so that even the Sect Leader could not detect it. How on earth did this young man of unknown origin discover it? And without even searching his body, he directly knocked the jade talisman out from a distance!

"No... it's not me..." Elder Sun waved his hands in a panic, retreating repeatedly, "This is... this is a trophy I captured from the hands of the Fire God Temple people! Yes! A trophy!"

Gu Changsheng sat on the rock and chuckled.

"A trophy? Then why does this trophy of yours still contain the message that your Hidden Moon Sect Leader was just severely injured and dying?"

Gu Changsheng raised his hand in a beckoning motion. The jade talisman on the ground flew directly into his hand.

A trace of Spiritual Qi spilled from his fingertips, forcibly breaking through the divine Dao Restriction on the jade talisman.

A crimson light screen unfolded in mid-air.

On the light screen, several lines of text were clearly displayed:

"Lin Zhenyuan is severely injured and dying; the remnants have retreated into Moon Burial Valley. The Formation is about to be activated; send God Generals quickly to close the net."

The time signature was exactly the moment before Gu Changsheng stepped into the canyon.

The ironclad evidence was mountain-high.

Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan was trembling with rage.

"Good! A very good trophy!" Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan walked towards Elder Sun step by step, the Spiritual Qi on his body circulating wildly, carrying the formidable pressure after his Breakthrough, "Sun Changming, I have treated you well! Why would you betray the Hidden Moon Sect!"

Seeing that the matter was completely exposed, the panic on Elder Sun's Face instead disappeared.

He looked at the approaching Sect Leader Lin Zhenyuan and suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Why? You ask me why?"

Elder Sun's Face was ferocious as he pointed at the surrounding incomplete sect members.

"Look at these people! Look at what kind of ghost state our Hidden Moon Sect has become!"

"We have been in this Spirit-Severing Land, guarding that illusory Moon Lord Legacy, hiding like rats in a sewer for tens of thousands of years! Every day, we live in fear, afraid that one day we will be discovered by the gods and burned to ashes in one fire!"

The more Elder Sun spoke, the more excited he became, his saliva flying.

"The Three Great God Lords are high above, controlling the world's incense offerings. What do we have to fight them with? Relying on that pathetic bit of cultivation Spiritual Qi of yours!"

"The Fire God Temple promised me that as long as I lured you to Moon Burial Valley and helped them open the Restriction, after the deed was done, they would grant me a Godhead and let me become a fourth-rank City God! I have had enough of these days of hiding and scurrying about; I want to live uprightly under the sun!"