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But at this moment, the life tablet in the ancestral hall suddenly broke into more than a dozen pieces.

The two disciples who were in charge of guarding here were attracted by the noise. When they saw the dozen or so broken life plates, an expression of disbelief and wonder suddenly appeared on their faces.

The two of them rubbed their eyes with their hands, then looked at each other, and then they were sure that they were not seeing things.

"Brother, report to the elders quickly!"

The younger disciple standing aside was the first to react and shouted loudly to another disciple.

Hearing this, the disciple quickly took out a voice stone and reported what had happened there.

In just a few breaths, an elder dressed in a purple-gold Taoist robe appeared directly in the ancestral hall. Just as the old man was about to go up, a middle-aged monk with a dignified face also teleported over.

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When they saw this person, several people in the hall hurriedly saluted him.

"Junior brother, what happened?" The sect leader asked the old man in the purple-gold Taoist robe.

"It's broken! It's all broken!"

The old man had already seen the broken life tablets, and when he heard the sect leader's question, he spoke with a look of disbelief.

Upon hearing this, the clan leader's face changed, and he immediately walked forward to take a look. When he looked at the dozen or so broken tablets on the altar, he immediately shouted loudly outside the hall: "All elders, see me in the ancestral hall!"

This roar carried with it a terrifying fluctuation of true energy, and the sound instantly spread throughout the gate of Tongtian Sword Sect like an overwhelming tidal wave.

Kang Ning and Dong Ling, who were hiding in the cave to practice, were startled when they heard the voice. They seemed to have guessed that the deaths of their fellow disciples had been discovered by the sect.

Not long after, all fifteen elders in the fusion stage of the Tongtian Sword Sect came to the ancestral hall.

The faces of these elders changed when they looked at the broken life plates, because some of them belonged to their disciples.

"Our Tongtian Sword Sect has lost so many of its own disciples for no apparent reason this time. Now, we must quickly investigate what happened behind this."

The sect leader looked at the elders and shouted angrily.

"Yes! Senior Brother!" An elder responded and immediately turned around to leave. His disciple's life tablet was also broken, and all he wanted at this moment was to find the murderer.

"Could it be the work of evil cultivators?" At this moment, an elder asked doubtfully.

"No! The three of us have been keeping an eye on Luyuan today, and no large-scale battle has taken place at all!" The elder who had already walked out of the hall heard this and turned around and said.

"Brother, I have something to tell you!" Yuan Jin, the elder of the Deacon Hall, suddenly spoke at this time.

"Oh? Junior Brother Yuan Jin, what did you find?"

Upon hearing this, the sect leader hurriedly asked.

"Just now, a true disciple came to my Deacon Hall to exchange for a lot of sixth-level treasures..."

"Yes, yes, yes! Just now, a disciple exchanged a lot of sixth-level healing pills from me!"

At this time, Elder Yuancao quickly took over the conversation.

"Quick! Find these two disciples for me!" When the sect leader heard what the two said, he immediately shouted at the elders.

Fifteen elders in the fusion stage went out at the same time, and not long after, the disciple who exchanged the treasure mine was brought over.

When the disciple came to the ancestral hall, everyone found out that the disciple who exchanged the treasure mine and the elixir was the same person.

"Who asked you to exchange these things? What's the point of exchanging them?"

The clan leader stood there, looking intimidating without even getting angry, and asked in a cold tone.

This disciple was only in the middle stage of the Spiritualization Stage. Facing the gazes of so many cultivators in the Fusion Stage, he was already trembling with fear. When he heard the Sect Master's question, he immediately said with a sad face, "Senior Brother Dong Ling asked me to exchange it. As for its purpose, Senior Brother did not tell me."

"Call Dong Ling over to me!" Upon hearing this, the sect leader shouted to Dong Ling's master.

The elder did not dare to delay and quickly teleported towards Dong Ling's cave. He had just discovered that his most beloved little disciple was also dead, and now he also wanted to find out the reason.

After a while, the elder took Dong Ling back to the ancestral hall.

"Dong Ling, tell me the truth, are the deaths of these people related to you?" The sect leader asked directly after seeing Dong Ling.

After hearing this, Dong Ling glanced at the true disciple kneeling on the ground and burst into tears, "Uncle Master, these brothers and sisters died because of me. It's my fault, it's all my fault!"

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked, and Dong Ling's master hurriedly said, "What happened to Dong Ling? Tell me quickly."

"Disciple...disciple dare not say it! I'm afraid...I'm afraid of being retaliated against!" Dong Ling said with tears in his eyes.

"With us here, what else are you afraid to say? So many people died, and you didn't report it to the sect immediately. This is enough to punish you!"

The sect leader also frowned and shouted.

"Uncle-master, Lu Yunsheng has betrayed us!" Dong Ling's words were like a thunderclap, especially Alchemy Hall Elder Yuan Cao and Deacon Hall Elder Yuan Jin, both of whom looked incredulous.

The two of them are most familiar with Lu Yunsheng, and they don't look like someone who would betray his sect.

Just when the two were confused, Dong Ling's voice came again.

He only said: "I discovered this boy's rebellious heart some time ago, so for the sake of safety, I specially summoned more than 20 fellow disciples to capture him, and then exchange some contribution points from the sect, but who knew..."

"Wait, who is this Lu Yunsheng?"

The sect leader interrupted Dong Ling and asked everyone.

Yuan Jin was about to respond, but Elder Yuan Hong, who was standing beside him, spoke first: "To answer your question, Senior Brother, this Lu Yunsheng was one of the disciples I recruited fifteen years ago. At that time, I used my magical powers to test them one by one, and I did not find that he had any ill intentions."

Upon hearing this, the sect leader frowned and nodded. In his heart, he still had faith in Yuan Hong's magical powers. After all, the magic power of illuminating demons could directly see into a person's inner thoughts.

If this boy had other intentions, Yuan Hong would definitely find out.

"But why did Lu Yunsheng suddenly betray his clan?"

Puzzled, the sect leader immediately asked Dong Ling, "You said Lu Yunsheng betrayed the sect, but what did you find out?"

Dong Ling didn't expect these people to be so difficult to fool, so he quickly said, "I discovered five years ago that Lu Yunsheng had killed his fellow disciples. Five years ago, Kang Ning's younger brother Kang An and three of his close disciples were brutally killed by Lu Yunsheng. I secretly investigated at that time. Today, Lu Yunsheng has killed another disciple, Qiao Yang. I saw that he was about to escape from the sect, so I called all the brothers to capture him. But when we took action, we found that he had hidden his strength and killed all the brothers."