The Vital Essence Body led four Blood Pill Realm martial artists from the Zhao Kingdom along a mountain path for about half an hour. Only when Wang He's group had vanished from sight behind them did he slowly stop.
He turned around, his gaze sweeping over Wen Yongji and the other three. Deliberately lowering his voice, he asked in a steady yet imposing tone, "Why were you besieging the people of Changyun?" Although he could not understand the Zhao Kingdom language they had spoken earlier.
Through the common knowledge passed on by Wang Yue's main body, however, he could roughly guess that these people's purpose was connected to the Three-Headed Buddha. Asking now was merely to confirm it further while maintaining the Buddha Son's air of mystery.
The four exchanged glances. Wen Yongji stepped forward, bowed, and replied in the same clumsy Great Chang language, "In reply to Buddha Son, the Three-Headed Buddha temple in Changyun County was slaughtered clean three days ago. Monks and believers alike—there was not a single survivor."
He paused, his tone gaining a measure of teeth-gritting hatred. "Senior Brother Ling Fang was our sect's contact in Changyun. Though he previously clashed with the Dragon Transformation Sect over seizing the Azure Blood Cloud River Cauldron from the Dragon Transformation Sect's Azure Blood Grandmaster, the two sides later reached a reconciliation.
"But who would have thought that only a few days after the reconciliation, Senior Brother Ling Fang would be murdered, and the Buddhist temple massacred as well!"
"Our siege of the Changyun people had two purposes. First, to capture a few alive and uncover the truth. Second, to remind the Dragon Transformation Sect not to think our Three-Headed Buddha Sect is easy to bully. If they do not give us an explanation, this matter is far