"Ye Xiaotian had been trapped by Yama's Huangquan. Xu Xiaoshou discovered it and rushed over, impersonated the Eighth Sword Immortal, did not dare use force, yet truly resolved his dean's predicament without lifting a finger before swaggering away...
"This was so Xu Xiaoshou!"
Shouye speculated thus, feeling that his deduction had... a fifty-percent chance of being right! That was not a low possibility.
Even if his deduction was wrong and this matter had nothing to do with Xu Xiaoshou, it was still enough to alarm the higher-ups.
After all, if he was wrong, it meant the real Eighth Sword Immortal and the real Yama Huangquan had clashed in the Yunlun Mountain Range. That reality was even more terrifying.
As he pondered, the sound of someone streaking through the distant sky rang out. Rao Yaoyao, with the Xuancang Divine Sword on her back, drifted down.
"Someone, come," she said unhurriedly.
Following behind Rao Yaoyao was neither Teng Shanhai, chief of the Battle Division who guarded the Void Island Rift, nor any of Teng Shanhai's new subordinates, the thirteen Taixu.
It was Wang Big Hammer—short, hunched over, and grim-faced.
Hearing her, the surrounding Cutting Path captains immediately stepped forward to greet her.
Zhu Mi'er was even more nervous and fearful as she stepped up to report, in full detail, every matter Captain Mu Rong Ying had instructed her to relay.
"What are your thoughts?" After hearing everything, Rao Yaoyao showed not the slightest ripple of emotion. She merely turned her gaze upon the many Cutting Path subordinates before her.
What thoughts could we possibly have... These Cutting Path squad captains had previously dealt only with Ghost Beasts. Their understanding of Saint Slave and Yama was limited to wanted notices and intelligence sheets. They had never met either side, so they exchanged awkward