Li Muyang pondered briefly, then asked with a confused expression, “But why would they toss Master Zhen’s body into that spatial rift after killing her?

“If our speculation is correct and it’s really them who put all these human corpses here, they should do everything they can to keep this place a secret, right?”

Xing Huanyue calmed down and chimed in, “That’s right. Their doing will provoke the wrath of Heaven and the anger of men. (idiom: provoke widespread indignation and discontent) Once it’s exposed, the Thousandsword Mountain Sect’s name would be dragged through the mud. I believe many human powers would condemn them after learning about their unspeakable collusion with the Bonebrutes.

“That’s right,” Nie Tian chimed in. “They should have done everything within their power to keep this secret.”

“Junior martial sister was not necessarily thrown into that spatial rift by people from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect,”...