Elder Tian was dead?!
Mo Hua's gaze trembled. "How is that possible...? He was perfectly fine. How could he suddenly die?"
Only days ago, he had drunk tea with Elder Tian and talked about Array Techniques. They had got along splendidly.
They had not seen each other for barely half a month. How could he suddenly be dead?
Mo Hua's emotions surged, his expression shifting.
Shopkeeper Zhao sighed. "That's how people are... You don't have to grow old to die. You can die at any time."
Mo Hua frowned. "But isn't it strange for him to die so suddenly?"
"It is strange..." Shopkeeper Zhao nodded, then glanced at Mo Hua with a complicated expression. "But Young Master, you must be used to it by now..."
Mo Hua did not understand.
Shopkeeper Zhao reminded him, "Those people who went underground with you before—didn't they also suddenly die?"
Just days earlier, those tomb robbers had been eating and drinking tea together.
Then they went underground with Young Master Mo, and suddenly they were all gone.
Mo Hua froze. "That's... not the same thing..."
How could those tomb robbers be compared with Elder Tian of the Earth Sect?
Tomb robbers made their living underground, their heads tied to their belts, life and death hanging by a thread. If they died, they died.
But Elder Tian was an Array Master, a bona fide elder of the Earth Sect, a man of standing... Could someone like that just drop dead?
And there had been no warning at all.
Mo Hua asked, baffled, "How did he die?"
"The Earth Sect says... something went wrong with his cultivation, and a sudden illness killed him," Shopkeeper Zhao said.
Mo Hua's expression turned complicated. "That counts as an explanation?"
"It's a cause of death, at least," Shopkeeper Zhao said.