The Soul Sweeping Tower truly was professional.
Hun Dan had taken the money and put his heart into the job.
They had followed the plan to the letter. The one who had caused an accident was not the Soul Sweeping Tower, but Xiao Ding himself! Xiao Ding could not use his own identity to shift the blame, because Hun Dan was also a prodigy of the Soul Clan! Now that the Bodhi Pill was in hand, this should have been good news.
Yet Xiao Ding could not shake the feeling that something was off.
Very off!
Xiao Ding could only console himself that this was the price he had to pay to obtain the Bodhi Pill.
Even so, Xiao Ding displayed the bearing expected of a Xiao Clan prodigy:
"Hun Dan, cover our retreat! Second Brother, let's go!"
What bearing was there to maintain at a time like this? Could he not see that a group of powerful experts were watching them with the hungry eyes of wolves? Hun Dan lowered his head and deliberately raised his voice:
"As you command, Xiao Ding, Your Excellency!"
Xiao Ding really wanted to say, "Could you stop calling me 'Your Excellency'? It's making me nervous!"
But Hun Dan had made it very clear to Xiao Ding earlier: the Soul Sweeping Tower recognized money, not people.
Whoever paid was their master! Since they had been hired as thugs, they had to act like thugs.
Rules could not be broken.
Otherwise, it would tarnish the Soul Sweeping Tower's reputation! The most professional mercenary force in the Central Plains! Seeing that Huo Zhi and the others still wanted to give chase, the Thunder Phantom Body rasped, "I should only be able to use Ten Thousand Souls Finger once more. Which one of you wants to go