To a world controlled by the Seven Saints, secretly mobilizing manpower for something like this was hardly a challenge.
The great war had only just ended. Ghost Doctor and his two disciples needed to take this opportunity to find suitable eyeballs for transplantation. Corpses could not be left too long, so they had to hurry.
Yan Baoru and Guo Man were kept behind by Wu Xin to guard the home.
Although they had already spoken to the money house people here, and logically no one from the rebel army should dare barge into this small courtyard, he still left the two women behind as a precaution.
Near dusk, someone from Misty Pavilion suddenly came calling. There was only one matter—they directly took Shao Liu'er away.
Hao Zhen and the others were uneasy, unable to understand what Misty Pavilion meant by suddenly taking Shao Liu'er away at such a critical moment amid the upheaval in Qi Capital.
Later, Wu Xin, who was busy at a site inside the city clearing corpses, received another letter. Its general meaning was that he was not to publicize Shao Liu'er's abduction. Otherwise, he could wait to collect her corpse. They said they would contact him again later.
The letter repeatedly warned that if he dared leak the news, he would see nothing but Shao Liu'er's body.
Wu Xin threw down his work and ran off on the spot, right under Ghost Doctor and Formless's watchful eyes.
Wu Xin hurried back to the small courtyard to confirm what had happened...
Night stretched vast and dim. On a mountaintop, Niu Youdao stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the scattered lights of Qi Kingdom's Capital City in the distance.
Yun Ji stood silently beside him, listening to the rising and falling chorus of insects in