Potential

The 5 people sitting in front of Alex, looked at each other with stern looks that lacked emotions. It was only the young male Elder who showed any sort of noticeable emotion as he simply shrugged in response.

"Well, there you have it," he said. "First Elder, I believe we are done here. He is not the person you are looking for."

Alex felt a sense of relief now that this elder had said as much, knowing that he would no longer be a potential murderer in the eyes of these higher-ups.

However, he hadn't anticipated the sheer blinded hatred the woman would hold against him.

"He could still be lying," the woman said.

Alex felt somewhat stunned, fearing that the woman had gone mad in grief. How else could one expect her response to a Heavenly Oath?

"He's lying?" one of the triplet sect masters asked.

"He just swore an oath," another one added.