He had escaped? Though they had already sensed that something might have gone wrong, they still found it hard to believe once they received a definite answer.
Jiang Wanlou simply could not accept this reality. "How is that possible? Five Supreme Elders personally took action. There are not many people in the world capable of stopping them, not to mention the aid of several hundred elite disciples. How could some petty thief possibly make five Supreme Elders return with their feathers soaked? Could it be that Niu Youdao truly has an endless supply of Heaven Sword Talismans?"
The Sect Master had placed such great hopes on them that the five Supreme Elders were thoroughly ashamed.
One of them said guiltily, "It was not that he had an inexhaustible supply of Heaven Sword Talismans. On land, that man was naturally no match for us; eliminating him would have been no trouble. But in water, it was another matter. That thief's cultivation technique is particularly suited to controlling water..." After recounting the underwater encounter, he naturally had to emphasize that they had not simply been incompetent. "We had already severely wounded him. Just as he was at death's door, a huge green snake suddenly emerged from underwater and rescued him, burrowing away with him from the bottom of the lake. According to the disciples below, that huge green snake was the Yun Ji who had previously burrowed away with the hostages."
With matters put this way, everyone roughly understood the whole course of events. Niu Youdao had come here to seize the hostages!
The so-called secret talk had been a trick. His explanations for bringing Yun Ji instead of Matchmaker had all been nonsense. The obvious reason was that this Yun Ji possessed the rare art of earth burrowing, allowing her to