In theory, Cheng Feng's group should have borne full responsibility.
"Where are those useless fools?"
"They failed, and they don't even know to come back?"
After a pause, Cheng Yao cursed loudly again.
Failure was one thing, but now there was not even a trace of them.
What were they trying to do?
Run away?
Cheng Yao grew even angrier.
"Th-this..."
The old man froze, not knowing what to say.
Indeed, failure was one thing, but for them to vanish without a trace was truly excessive.
As for any other unforeseen possibilities, the two tacitly ignored them.
After all, Cheng Feng's group was indeed powerful. With Liu Qing's strength, it was already a stroke of luck that he had escaped. There was simply no way he could have injured Cheng Yao and the others.
However, it was obvious that both Cheng Yao and the old man had guessed wrong this time, and the slap to their faces came so quickly that they were caught completely off guard.
"Bad news, Patriarch, bad news..." Just as the two were speaking, an urgent, panicked voice suddenly rang out.
"What is it? Why are you so flustered? Have you no manners?"
Seeing the Elder rush before him, Cheng Yao immediately greeted him with a torrent of abuse.
"Patriarch, this is bad! Elder Cheng Yao and the others' jade plaques have all shattered."
The jade plaques in the family ancestral hall were inspected every seven days. But when he had performed the routine inspection just now, he discovered that the jade plaques of Cheng Yao and the other five had all shattered, frightening him badly.
A shattered jade plaque meant that its owner was dead.
Cheng Feng was a Seven-Star Dou Emperor and ranked among the strongest in the Cheng Family. His death was a