A perfectly good Five Peaks Sword Sect merger assembly had ended in a hasty, anticlimactic fashion after Ji Shu suddenly rose up and killed someone, and Yue Buqun led his party away.
Qingcheng Sect's Yu Canghai stood to one side with his arms folded, watching the show as he thought:
"Zuo Lengchan's skill at twisting right and wrong and crying thief has grown stronger and stronger. But Mount Song Sect and Mount Hua Sect are dogs biting dogs. What does that have to do with my Qingcheng Sect? Best if the two sects slaughter each other until blood flows like rivers and every last one of them dies!"
Many people saw through matters just as clearly as Yu Canghai did.
They were all clever men.
It was obvious that Mount Song Sect had seen how formidable Mount Hua Sect's Ji Shu was, how difficult he was to control, and feared that he would threaten Zuo Lengchan's bid for the position of Sect Leader of the Five Peaks Sword Sect! That was why they wanted to get rid of Ji Shu.
But who could have expected that Mount Song Sect would fail to kill Ji Shu and instead infuriate him? Without another word, Ji Shu had turned around and killed Fei Bin. Then, wielding his sword in broad, sweeping strokes, he had killed and wounded no fewer than dozens of Mount Song Sect disciples! Had Master Fangzheng and Daoist Master Chongxu not intervened in time, Mount Song Sect might very well have been slaughtered through by Ji Shu!
Seeing how astonishing Ji Shu's swordsmanship was and how profound his cultivation had become, the heads of Kunlun Sect, Emei Sect, and the other sects had been secretly alarmed. Thus, when Zuo Lengchan later tried to kill Ji Shu and Yue Buqun hoped