As soon as the first young master left, the two branch leaders exchanged a glance, before the second branch leader spoke.

"Do you think he is telling the truth?"

"I think so. What about you?"

"I am more inclined in believing him, but we didn't watch over him properly when he was forging in the core area. That is why I couldn't dismiss all of my suspicions on him."

Both of them became silent. It is apparent that they are still suspicious of the first young master. After all, he is the only person that survived an attack that took the lives of around two dozen Astral Plane transcendent cultivators and an Astral Plane Consummate cultivator. This is not something believable.

Granted that they can assume that the other force