"Outside Yufang Mountain, someone saw with their own eyes that Fellow Daoist Tianwu took her away."
"She ran."
Chen Sanshi answered calmly.
In truth, after dealing with Cao Xie, he had already sent someone to secretly bring his senior sister into the Eastern Continent.
"She ran?"
Shen Junzhuo frowned. "Are you joking, Fellow Daoist?"
"I had indeed intended to keep her under control and slowly study the Sword Demon within her, to see whether it could be turned to my own use."
Chen Sanshi said, "But the thing inside her was too powerful. Even I could not suppress it, so I could only give up and let her leave."
"Heh heh."
Wang Shouzhi said with a smile that did not reach his eyes, "The matter of the Sword Demon could bring calamity upon all living things with the slightest carelessness. I ask Fellow Daoist Tianwu to consider carefully before answering."
"You do not believe what I say?"
Chen Sanshi swept his gaze over them and said evenly, "Since you do not believe me, then you may all enter the Eastern Continent with me and search as you please. I will absolutely not stop you."
Enter the Eastern Continent? The group looked at Tianwu, then at Cao's severed head. Not one of them dared take a step forward.
"Since you have put it this way, naturally we have no reason not to believe Fellow Daoist Tianwu."
Shen Junzhuo collected Cao's two heads. "Regarding the execution of Cao, Shen thanks you on Kunxu's behalf."
"Save your thanks. I did not do this to help you. Those who offend my Great Han shall be punished, no matter how far away they are. It would be the same no matter who came."
Chen Sanshi took an oblique jab at the Three Heavenly Sects, then