An old woman approached and respectfully said, "There are no signs of poison being placed anywhere, and no outsiders have entered the planet. Either the poison was already there, or the poison was completely absorbed."

"Absorb?" Long Tian was stunned, and suddenly remembered something, the star essence. "Find Wen Diyi and Nong Lie immediately."

As soon as his voice fell, his communication crystal vibrated. "Junior Progenitor, Wen Diyi and Nong Lie have both been poisoned."

Long Tian let out a roar of rage and rushed straight over.

…

Within the dark red magma, Lu Yin was still absorbing star essence.

After half a day, Long Tian emerged from a training room with a solemn expression. He had just seen Wen Diyi, and the youth was suffering from the exact same poison as Long Jue, as was Nong Lie as well. Long Tian’s first suspect was Liu Tianmu. She had been the only one with both the motive and ability to leave poison around.

However, Liu Tianmu had never wandered to the regions where Wen Diyi and the others had grabbed the star essence they had used, so she could not have been the one to do the poisoning. On top of that, there was a trace amount of poison in the star essence in Liu Tianmu's own training room. While this was not enough to completely clear Liu Tianmu of all suspicion, it also was not enough to prove that she had been the...