Wasn't it someone from the Sangying Sect who left the secret message telling me to come here? Why was it Chen Fei?
Jiang Liulin looked at Chen Fei, knowing it was already too late to leave. He was just about to step forward when he realized he could no longer move. Even the origin energy throughout his body had been completely sealed.
His late-stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivation was no more than an ornament. In an instant, he had become an ordinary man.
Chen Fei glanced at Jiang Liulin. The next moment, both of them vanished from the restaurant, leaving only a few taels of silver on the table where Chen Fei had been sitting.
Outside Xuanlin City, Chen Fei and Jiang Liulin appeared on a hilltop. From here, they could only make out the city's vague outline.
"Elder Chen!" Discovering that he could move again, Jiang Liulin hurriedly bowed to Chen Fei.
"May I ask why Elder Chen has brought me here?"
When Chen Fei said nothing, Jiang Liulin continued, still bowing. Faced with a Joint Aperture Realm expert like this, he dared not show the slightest disrespect.
"You know me?" Chen Fei asked evenly.
"Elder Chen displayed such divine might in the Haiyue Grotto-heaven. Who in the Haifeng Domain hasn't heard of you?" Jiang Liulin deliberately put on a faint, ingratiating smile.
"Were you looking for someone from the Sangying Sect at the restaurant?" Chen Fei looked at Jiang Liulin, a faint smile appearing on his face as well.
Chen Fei had thought he might see a Joint Aperture Realm cultivator appear at the restaurant. Instead, an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator had shown up. Clearly, whoever had commissioned the assassination did not want to reveal their identity.
"The Sangying Sect?"
Jiang Liulin froze, then quickly shook his head