What could make Gai Jun, the Myriad Stars Tower's former First Floor Master—a man of considerable poise and unfathomable depth—let out an enraged roar and vomit blood on the spot?
The reason was simple: it came from the line left behind in the jade slip.
"Gentlemen, I am pleased that you arrived on time. However, Luoyang Island is desolate and uninhabited, with nothing to offer my guests. I have therefore returned to Phoenix Tail Island to await you in peace. Six days from now, at noon, Ye will await your honored arrival. You understand the rules!"
That was the message left in the jade slip they had found.
It was naked mockery directed at the five of them. Mockery was one thing; Gai Jun could accept that.
When they had set out from Phoenix Tail Island, Gai Jun had already vaguely suspected this might happen. But as before, he had not dared gamble.
Finding this jade slip now was not entirely unacceptable. The crucial part was the final sentence of the message.
"You understand the rules"—those words drove Gai Jun into a frenzy of rage.
In other words, they had to fly day and night for another six days to get back. Including the twenty-one days they had already spent traveling, they had been flying for nearly a month in a state of near-total exhaustion.
Forget Dao Entry Realm experts—even immortals could not endure that.
If this continued, Gai Jun seriously doubted that, even if they rescued the Gai Family's Young Floor Master, his own lifespan would last until the day he had raised him into a Dao Entry Realm expert.
That was the true reason Gai Jun had coughed up blood!
Yet there was nothing they could do.
They had been the first to use this method of threat