"What are you standing around for?"
Dugu Ao reminded him, "Cao Xie will be here any moment. Why aren't you taking your people and leaving?"
"Cao Xie?"
Chen Sanshi knew people from the Holy Sect could arrive at any time, but he had not expected them to come so quickly.
"No. One person is missing."
With a grave expression, he said, "Xue Xianrong escaped."
When Jiang Xiyue first succumbed to demonic corruption, Xue Xianrong had taken a sword strike and then vanished without a sound. Now that the trouble was resolved, there was neither hide nor hair of him, dead or alive. He had most likely fled amid the chaos.
That bastard had not only witnessed the Blind Woman succumb to demonic corruption, but had also seen his Dragon Abyss Sword and Bright Silver Spear. No matter what, he could not be allowed to live.
"I'll handle it."
Dugu Ao said in a deep voice, "You just leave."
"Thank you, Senior Dugu."
Chen Sanshi clasped his fists. "I have no way to repay today's favor."
Dugu Ao said calmly, "Cut the nonsense. Just double what I asked you for earlier."
"No problem."
Chen Sanshi agreed without hesitation. He gathered the unconscious Jiang Xiyue into his arms, stepped onto his flying sword, and soared into the air.
Pushing his badly injured body beyond its limits, he took his senior sister all the way back to Dragon Elephant City. He exchanged Xue Zhu's head for the Jade Dew of Creation, then immediately accepted a mission outside the city and swiftly departed this land of trouble.
Too many unbelievable things had happened tonight.
Jiang Xiyue, Dugu Ao...
Even worse, he had just received news at the Training Ground that another incident had occurred in Sixue Dao.
The various sects had originally sent people