An Illusory White Flower

"So, you were a traitor, huh?" one of them said in a sharp voice, something Alex only just began to recognize and hear.

"How long have you been with us, young Lan? Were you bribed by someone? Who got to you?" the other one asked. He then began looking around.

The second sect master had a mellower voice.

'The two that were absorbing brother Tai's body just now,' Alex thought. Those two had come instead of the one free.

"Who else was it? Tell us," the first sect master asked. "I know three people just teleported out, somehow ignoring our formation. Those were no simple methods they used to leave."

"They're long gone. You won't find them," Elder Lan said. "And just to let you know, I was never bribed. I was simply a spy, sent here to make sure nothing wrong was happening with this sect."

The two masters looked at each other in surprise and then back at Elder Lan.

"Why? Who sent you?" the two men asked.