Sang Ruiqian froze.
He... what had he just heard?
The Martial Maniac was gone?
Killed... killed by a Celestial Empire Inner Strength practitioner whom he had never considered an opponent?
Ha... hahaha...
It was too ridiculous.
Sang Ruiqian instinctively wanted to laugh, yet he could not quite laugh.
It sounded far too much like a joke, but did Ke Lingfeng have any reason to joke with him?
They were not old friends of many years. Ke Lingfeng only appeared friendly because he supported Lu Pingsheng; in truth, they had no real relationship.
On the contrary, they had originally belonged to opposing factions. Ke Lingfeng was part of the alliance formed by the Ji Family. Though both belonged to the True Realm grandmaster camp, they were from different factions.
"What happened?" Sang Ruiqian asked grimly.
"Combat method. According to the Elixir Strength practitioner I sent over, this Huo Yuanhong's combat method is already in a class of its own. Even among those in a class of their own, he counts as one of the strongest. With the same Outer Strength cultivation, he saw through the Martial Maniac's flaw through combat method and ended the fight in a single strike..." Ke Lingfeng said solemnly.
"?" Sang Ruiqian was startled, his brows slowly knitting together. "Outer Strength? The information Little Lu sent back clearly said Inner Strength..."
He shook his head. He had thought that Young Master Lu handled matters rather well, but now it seemed that even a tiger father could have a dog son. He could get even such basic intelligence wrong.
Utterly useless.
He had only passed two sentences in from outside, and one of them had been wrong by such a shocking margin.
"It seems he is the new Demon Sect leader after all. No wonder Lu Mingxu vanished