Qiu spared Ye Tian for the time being and went to the fasting room to visit the disciple who had picked her life back up.
"Master!" the woman saluted respectfully.
Qiu had brought a total of six disciples out with her, thinking to let them broaden their horizons. She had not expected that in less than a few days, four of them would be gone.
There was still one more who had nearly been scared witless.
"Master, I failed to protect my junior brother and sisters. Please punish me, Master!"
Qiu frowned slightly, sighed, and said, "This matter is not your fault. I assigned you a task. Where would you have found the energy to watch over them?"
"Give him this pill!"
"Yes!"
The woman in white took the pill, sat by the bed, and fed it to her junior brother. In just a short while, the junior brother who had originally been trembling all over calmed down.
Only the terror in his pupils had yet to fade.
"Master, I went to the thatched hall to examine my junior brother and sisters' corpses. That person's methods were clean, decisive, and vicious. It seemed as if they came solely to kill.
"The four of them put together had no strength to resist. At the very least, the killer must have been a Nascent Soul Cultivator."
"Mm." Qiu nodded silently.
Very soon, that somewhat deranged male disciple came awake. After seeing Master and First Senior Sister, he was so frightened that he sat bolt upright.
Covering his somewhat swollen face, he said, "This disciple greets Master, First Senior Sister!"
"Speak. What exactly happened?"
"Last night... last night, we... and then..." The male disciple's voice came in fits and starts, as if he still had not recovered, but his mind was very clear.