The purple-clad woman he had saved was named Xie Lingyao, instantly stirring Ye Xingchen's killing intent.
Clang!
His sharp sword left its sheath and hovered at her neck.
At that moment, the killing intent radiating from the Night Emperor was overwhelmingly fierce.
In truth, he had always harbored a doubt. Empress Ling Yao's death had been far too simple. Could there have been another hidden truth behind it?
Now, by a twist of fate, he had saved a woman with a name so similar to hers. Could it be...
"What do you mean?"
Xie Lingyao's willow brows knitted slightly.
She sensed the intense killing intent, yet remained calm throughout. Such composure was worthy of admiration.
The more she acted this way, the more suspicious Ye Xingchen became. He said coldly, "Who are you? Why did you deliberately approach me?"
"..."
Xie Lingyao was speechless.
Clearly, you were the one who saved me. How had it become me deliberately approaching you?
"It doesn't matter if you won't say."
Ye Xingchen said, "Because you're about to die."
Did everyone notice that this guy had suddenly become much more talkative? That was because he had been constantly wondering whether Empress Ling Yao was truly dead, leaving his mind in utter turmoil.
"Why do you want to kill me?" Xie Lingyao asked.
"Because..."
Ye Xingchen suddenly fell silent.
The reason he wanted to kill her was the two characters "Ling Yao," but saying that aloud seemed a little too absurd.
In this high-martial universe, where Huaxia was commonly used as a surname and Chinese characters as names, there were simply too many people sharing the same name. Killing someone over that would truly violate the Eternal Sect's principles.
Jun Changxiao often instilled in his disciples the idea that if others did not offend them,