In just three days.
News spread like wildfire through Guangyang Prefecture and the surrounding area: Shen Qitian had provoked the wrong person, and the Shen Family's senior members—including Gu Sha, an elder-level Attendant from the Nine Suns Sword Sect—had been executed in public.
The news soon reached the Nine Suns Sword Sect's headquarters.
Once those who received it had ordered its accuracy checked, they hurried to report it up the chain. At last, it reached the Sect Master, the Divine Sun Sword Lord.
Li Tianlong's face darkened like the bottom of a pot as he read the report his subordinates had submitted.
He was not just furious. He was shocked!
"Outrageous! Gu Sha was sent to serve as the Shen Family's Attendant so he could hold down Guangyang Prefecture and keep the territory under the Nine Suns Sword Sect's rule stable. Why was that fool so stupid?"
"He provoked a Saint Gold Divine Lord over a mere Shen Qitian?"
The report his subordinates had delivered was a thick stack of pages.
Why Shen Qitian had provoked the man...
How Gu Sha, Shen Fang, and the others had been killed...
The Nine Suns Sword Sect's investigators had uncovered every cause and consequence with perfect clarity.
It had begun simply because two people had passed through Guangyang Prefecture a few days earlier and stayed for a while. One of them was so handsome and elegant that he drew comments from some of the prefecture's young women.
Shen Qitian happened to hear a maid say that the man was even more handsome than he was. Jealous, he took Bloodmist Sword Venerable and chased after them, claiming he wanted to see for himself who dared to be better-looking than him!
The reason was laughable enough.
But none of that mattered.
In Li Tianlong's eyes,