"Those people from Crossblade Manor must have discovered the armory's been emptied by now, right?"
"Haha..."
"They're probably furious..."
"But that's got nothing to do with me."
"Let them rage."
More than half an hour later, Li Yun was already well beyond Crane Mountain.
He did not return to Blood Tiger Stronghold.
He picked a direction and headed straight west.
Night lay deep over the land.
Li Yun was in no hurry. By dawn, he had traveled only two or three hundred li. He entered a town, found a restaurant, and prepared to treat himself to fine food and wine.
Crane Mountain.
White-Headed Old Man Stronghold.
Gu Yang and Bai Tou Weng hung side by side, their hands and feet bound. Below them lay a pool of bubbling, scorching lava.
Less than twenty meters away, two men in fighting clothes had drawn their bows and aimed at the ropes holding them. One release of their fingers, and both men would plunge into the lava.
With their True Qi sealed, a fall into lava at least a thousand degrees hot would leave them without so much as a bone.
Both men were nearly wetting themselves in terror.
They begged for mercy with everything they had.
They desperately tried to explain.
"Nanny Xu... please, believe me. I truly don't know why the armory was empty. It had nothing to do with me!"
"It had nothing to do with me either, Nanny Xu! The armory can only be opened by using all three Secret Keys together. There's no other way. I only had one key—how could I possibly sneak in and take everything?"
"If I'd done it, wouldn't I have fled long ago? Why would I still be on Crane Mountain... Wait, Wang Chaoshan fled! He wouldn't just run off for no