One day later...
With countless Mount Hua Sect disciples looking on, "Lu Tupi" swaggered away from Mount Hua on his flying sword.
The very next day, news came from the Mount Hua Sect: "Lu Tupi" had committed an unspeakable outrage. He had sneaked into the Sect Master's closed-door cultivation chamber, assassinated Patriarch Blazing Fire, and stolen the Mount Hua Sect's six treasured relics: the All Heavens Blazing Fire Divine Banner, the Heavenly Star Demon God Nail, the Ghost Green Flame Shuttle, the Blazing Fire Thunder Sound Sword, and others.
The news sent the world into an uproar!
People couldn't help recalling that someone else had once done something similar: Zhu Hong, who had stolen the Wutai Sect's Primordial Ancestor's defensive treasure, the Taiyi Five-Smoke Net, before betraying his sect.
But this "Lu Tupi" had gone even further than Zhu Hong. He had even killed his own master.
Such a heartless, ungrateful man who had betrayed and murdered his master was challenging everyone's limits.
For a time, "Lu Tupi" became a rat everyone wanted to beat, hated by both the righteous and demonic factions.
The strange thing was that no one had seen "Lu Tupi" since that day. It was as if he had vanished from the face of the earth.
In a way, he really had vanished!
The real Lu Tupi had long since been dissolved by Corpse Dissolving Powder into a puddle of yellow water and evaporated. As for Hao Shuai, who had impersonated him, he had used medical-grade equipment to return to his original appearance not long after leaving Mount Hua.
By now, Hao Shuai had already reached Cloud Mist Mountain, a thousand li away.
Cloud Mist Mountain was a small range stretching for a thousand li. Compared with Mangcang Mountain, Emei Mountain, and Zhongnan Mountain, it was