He had brought part of the news, with the rest pieced together from what he'd heard from two neighboring Fellow Daoists.
According to him, the reason for the last incident was that there was indeed a traitor within the family.
The defector was a high-level elder. It took several difficult, elaborate traps to finally root him out; he had been hidden quite deeply. In the end, he was executed in public.
It was a deterrent against similar acts of treason.
Especially at such a critical juncture of life and death, the entire clan had to be united as one.
Furthermore, what Chef Zeng found strange was that the enemy did indeed have a plan to make a move against Lin Changheng.
But for some unknown reason, it was either postponed or canceled.
Chef Zeng and Lin Changheng discussed this point for a long time but couldn't come to a clear conclusion.
They had no choice but to let it go.
Lin Changheng also gave him the newly refined Elixirs.
