The Sixth Dragon Head clapped his hands in praise.
"Li Xiaodi, what exquisite skill! Your cultivation has likely reached the very pinnacle of this age. You truly are a first-rate talent and hero!"
Meng Zhao flicked the wrinkles from his robe with his fingertips and smiled.
"Trifling tricks, not worth mentioning. Kang Tongxiao was Wei Wushang's man; both could be called diehard loyalists of the Heavenly Origin Imperial Court.
As the saying goes, their hero is our enemy. That man's death was no great loss.
However, now that he is dead, the Dragon Protector Secret Service will likely set its sights on Kaiyan County. Therefore, in a few days, I will lead my men out of the county seat and lie low elsewhere. When that time comes, if the White Dragon Venerable Society wishes to find me, it will have to look elsewhere."
The Sixth Dragon Head did not think Kang Tongxiao was some insignificant nobody. He had been Wei Wushang's right-hand man, meticulous by nature and skilled at investigation and intelligence gathering.
Though his martial arts could not be called peerless, they were still first-rate in the present age. He was certainly no nameless minor figure.
Now that he had died here today, no matter how flawlessly Meng Zhao handled the matter, Wei Wushang's attention would eventually be drawn here.
When that happened, the Imperial Court would certainly dispatch capable personnel to investigate. Meng Zhao had no absolute confidence that he could evade them.
Thus, he intended to break up the whole into scattered parts, dispersing Little Cold Village to the four winds and erasing all traces of himself and the mysterious organization he had created.
He would even wipe out every Dragon Protector Secret Service agent who had ever contacted Kang Tongxiao, ensuring that Wei Wushang received as