Li Tianming had just returned from the Abyssal Battlefield and was heading back to the "Number One Pavilion Under Heaven" when, before he had gone far, Yi Xingyin, the master of Azure Star Hall, called out to him from behind.
"Hall Master?"
Li Tianming walked up to him.
"Fang Xingque is dead. What happened?" Yi Xingyin asked.
"Dead?" Li Tianming froze for a moment. "Who did it?"
"You did," Yi Xingyin said.
"Me? Hall Master, don't joke around. He was eliminated before me, and the Battle of the Multitudinous Stars only just ended. I had no time to go looking for him. Besides, I'd already taught him a lesson. There was no need for that," Li Tianming said.
"Is that so?" Yi Xingyin glanced at him. "When I brought Fang Xingque out, there was a sword-shaped Heavenly Pattern on his body. It was like some sort of sealing method, seemingly a seal inflicted by your sword, left behind on Fang Xingque. Is that right?"
"That is true."
"The people of the Supreme Purity Fang Clan said that the Sword Qi seal flared up and strangled Fang Xingque to death," Yi Xingyin said.
"That can't be, can it? Did anyone see it happen?" Li Tianming said blankly. This matter had truly caught him by surprise.
"I don't know about that. In any case, the man is dead. But you have the Exalted Deity behind you, so there's no need to worry about retaliation. The Fang Clan doesn't seem to have any intention of dealing with you. Just watch yourself in the future," Yi Xingyin said mildly.
Li Tianming frowned.
Had the Imperial Sword Prison taken the initiative to kill someone?
He had only just mastered this technique and did not know much about it. If it had truly lost control and