After making sure that the mask was fitted on properly, Mr Lang walked out of the house and came to the lake side.

He looked at the fog that continued to bubble and rise into the air with an icy look in his eyes.

"We're almost there, we're almost there...I just need a little time. Just a little."

Mr Lang sat down cross legged as he watched the bubbling surface of the lake water and stopped speaking. He quietly concentrated on healing his own injuries.

Meanwhile.

Back at Qingshan Sect.

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And now, all the sect leaders and elders of the various sects had gathered here not to attack Qingshan Sect and rush out of the mountain gate, but to join hands to guard the mountain gate.

"I didn't expect to take so much effort just to even discover the enemy," sighed Li Xuan.

If not for Jiang Ning, all of them would have just continued being Mr Lang's tools and be used by him.

"Who on earth is this Mr Lang? You mean we don't have any clue at all?" snarled Geng Jianba angrily. "He actually dared to fool us and use us! What audacity!"

"Now is not the time to get angry. We don't know who he is or what he wants to do, and that's the most terrifying part now."

Everyone made their comments and eventually started arguing.

"Enough," said Jiang Ning as he sat in the leader's chair inside the main hall. The entire place immediately fell silent.

Everyone turned to look at Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning now called the shots and nobody protested anymore.

Just that fight earlier with Mr Lang had already proved that Jiang Ning's prowess was way beyond anything that all the people here were capable of.

"If we want to know what Mr Lang is trying to do, I'm afraid we'll have to go to the northern region." He looked at all of them. "I'm very sure Mr Lang is the one who's creating that gray matter."

"No, don't do that! The gray matter is very terrifying! If you touch it, you'll definitely die!" Li Xuan immediately shook his head.

"I heard that there was one sect that disappeared because they were overcome by this gray matter! Not a single soul was left behind!"

Everyone else nodded in agreement.

They had heard a lot of such

rumors. After one of the sects was covered with the gray fog, they went to cheek the place after the fog dissipated, only to find that not a single living thing was left behind. en.s.net

"Have all of you seen it for yourselves?"

"Yes, we did!" said Yun Zhongke.

Jiang Ning shook his head. "What I'm asking is, have all of you actually seen anybody get corroded by the gray fog and melt away in front of you?" Everyone shook their heads.

None of them had actually seen this.

But since these rumors existed, surely there was some truth in it, right?

Besides, those sects had really disappeared. Not a single person had appeared ever again. They were all dead.

"Jiang Ning, are you saying that this fog could possibly be just a cover for something else?" asked Liu Chuandao after thinking about it.

Elder Ting Feng thought the same

way too and nodded. "You mean

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there's something in the northern region that he doesn't want us know about? So he purposely created this fog and the rumors about how terrifying it is so that nobody would come en.s.net

close?"

Jiang Ning nodded.

"That's one possibility."

He had never heard of any chemical that would only corrode living things and nothing else. Even if it was poison, it would leave traces behind after the chemical reaction was completed.

Jiang Ning believed in science, so even though the world was filled with many mysterious and seemingly magical things, there was always a logical explanation for it.

That was how the world worked.

"The more he's trying to cover this up, the more certain I am that there's something there," said Jiang Ning. "Since he doesn't want us to see it, then all the more we should go and have a look." en.s.net

"You want to go to the northern region?" Li Xuan's face paled.

Even though he did feel that Jiang Ning had a point, what if he was wrong?

No matter how powerful Jiang Ning was in terms of fighting, if the fog was truly corrosive, then there was no way he could be saved!

"That's right, I'll go and have a look." Jiang Ning nodded. "If we don't look for the problem, how are we going to solve the problem?"