Chapter 2039: Find a Good Reason for Gui Che!

Feilian had just calmed Gui Che down and applied medicine to him when Gui Che pulled him back down as he tried to take him away.

"I… won't leave!"

"Gui Che, if you don't leave, you'll die here!" Feilian roared. "Do you want our demon clan to lose another elite general?"

Gui Che stared fixedly at the two before him, saying nothing, but the light in his eyes slowly dimmed.

Both Feilian and Jiment understood that if he returned now, he would face fierce condemnation.

More importantly, the demon clan's reputation and prestige had sunk to rock bottom precisely because of Gui Che.

"Don't worry, we'll protect you."

Jiment said: "Just now I checked—your body has a toxin, and it's likely this toxin causing your madness that set Fire Serpent Island ablaze."

At that moment, a faint glimmer returned to Gui Che's eyes.

He had truly forgotten everything before—what he had done, he himself did not know.

But with Jiment's words, he seemed to recall a brief period of lucidity on Fire Serpent Island after Xiangliu had wounded him.

"So I really was poisoned?"

"Yes. I detected a toxin in your dantian—it can't be removed yet. But who could have planted such a potent poison on you?"

Both Jiment and Feilian were taken aback.

If the Witch Clan had planned this—poisoning Gui Che and making him burn Fire Serpent Island—it still wouldn't make sense.

The reasons for Gui Che's poisoning are countless; they could not determine them.

But Gui Che himself could guess!

"If I was poisoned, it must have been Shebi Shi!"

"Why are you so certain?"

"Feilian, remember when we first came to Fire Serpent Island? We heard Luo Fu had taken the primordial ginseng fruit and primordial peach from the Witch Clan's twelve Ancestral Witches."

"I came here with you to investigate, but got injured by the barrier!"

Feilian nodded—he remembered well, and it was Gui Che's recklessness that had caused his injury from the barrier.

Gui Che growled: "That barrier had Shebi Shi's poison on it."

"That doesn't prove anything…"

"You mean Shebi Shi's poison remained on Fire Serpent Island after the barrier broke? You were wounded there, so the toxin entered you and clouded your mind?"

At this moment, all three demons had thoughts, but none spoke.

If this were true, it could only mean Gui Che was too easily provoked—perhaps the Witch Clan never intended it.

Shebi Shi truly felt wronged; he never expected Gui Che would return to Fire Serpent Island, or that he'd bring Zhu Rong to cause chaos there.

At this moment, all of them had words they could not speak.

"Let's go back."

This time, Gui Che did not resist.

As long as he made his story clear, the demon clan would blame the Witch Clan—even if the Witch Clan didn't do it, he could say they did.

He'd just be confined or punished as the nine-headed bird Gui Che.

As long as he wasn't branded a criminal against the Witch Clan or the one who disgraced them, he could bear any other punishment—the nine-headed bird Gui Che felt.

Soon after packing up, Jiment and Feilian led Gui Che away from Fire Serpent Island.