"Senior... is that you?!"
Zhong Fan froze where he stood, then suddenly understood.
That final arrow Wutuo had fired was definitely a Sealed Item beyond A-rank!
In such a desperate situation, there were only a handful of powerful people in the entire Eastern Continent who could forcibly manipulate their own bodies with mental power to evade it!
But that "Dire Ghost Senior" from the Frozen Sea Ruins had to be one of them!
"So..."
Gu Shen did not answer immediately.
He casually put Zhong Fan's Dire Ghost Mask over his own face and asked, "Tonight's assassination wasn't a plan arranged by Nagano. It was something you did on your own?"
"...Yes."
Zhong Fan gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "I hid this matter from Lord Nanfeng."
"Gu Nanfeng came to the Western Continent too?"
"Because of the agreement between the Two Continents... Transcendents above the titled level need to apply for approval before crossing continents. Lord Nanfeng was delayed for a few days, but he should arrive in the Western Continent today."
As he spoke, Zhong Fan looked at the Dire Ghost before him in confusion.
The reason he had forged this mask—
Was because that battle in the Frozen Sea had been too shocking.
He would remember for the rest of his life the scene of "Dire Ghost Senior" tearing Giant Deer and Black Tortoise, two titled Transcendents, apart alive. A large part of his reason for forging the mask had been reverence.
If that intervention at the Frozen Sea had merely been a coincidence—
Then meeting again in the City of Light could not possibly be one.
Zhong Fan did not believe that this "Dire Ghost Senior" had merely happened to pass by... He knew his identity and even Lord Nanfeng's name. Clearly, this senior was from