Almost at the instant the Triangular Iron Saw Grass Little Demon had spawned shot up from the ground toward Gai Shanjun, the First Floor Master, Gai Shanjun, who had been wholly absorbed in comprehending the Dao patterns, twitched his brows and spun around like a whirlwind.
"Who!"
"Big Brother, it's me!"
Seeing the figure that had suddenly appeared behind him, the turned-around Gai Shanjun's eyes abruptly filled with incredulous shock. "Second Brother? You..."
"No, you're not..." Before he could cry out, Gai Shanjun suddenly felt a faint pain under his foot. A glance from the corner of his eye immediately showed him the gray-black, three-edged strange grass that had appeared beneath his foot.
An incomparably strange sensation suddenly rose in his heart. He had secluded himself in this Quiet Room for so long, yet he had never noticed any grass growing there.
But there was no time to concern himself with that strange grass. His incomparably grim gaze fixed on Ye Zhen, who looked nearly identical to Huang Tan, the Second Floor Master of Myriad Stars Tower. "Speak, who exactly are you..."
The instant he shouted in fury, his divine sense stirred, and he shot forward like lightning, intending to capture this impostor alive before interrogating him.
Yet when he took a step, the spiritual power in his dantian did not surge forth as it should have. He immediately stumbled, and terror drained the color from his face.
Before he could understand what had happened, Gai Shanjun suddenly felt his body grow light. In an extremely bizarre sight, he saw his own body stagger and collapse to the ground, blood spraying wildly from its severed neck.
"No..."
Realizing something, Gai Shanjun let out a grief-stricken roar and tried to drive his Innate Soul out of his body to escape. But