Soul Control Clan's Sudden Upheaval

The woman gave a calm, dismissive snort. "Your friend was taken away by the Esteemed One. If nothing happens afterward, she will naturally let him go."

"As for your dead teacher, I don't know what happened. He was already dead here when I arrived."

As she said this, a trace of hesitation surfaced on the woman's face of its own accord, as if she had vaguely guessed something in her heart but did not voice it.

Lu Feng's expression tightened. Hearing the woman confirm Old Book's death, an indescribable heaviness weighed upon his heart.

Amid that heaviness, the words "Esteemed One" in the woman's speech instinctively made him think of the Soul Gouging Lord he had seen in the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins.

Suppressing the pain in his heart, he frowned and asked, "Is the Esteemed One you speak of the Soul Gouging Lord who refined Qiao Guniang into a Soul Spirit? Was this grand formation set up by her? Take me to see her. She must have sensed Old Book's death and knows the murderer!"

The woman was clearly taken aback. Then she fixed Lu Feng with an icy stare and said sharply, "It seems you know quite a lot. You even know of our clan's Soul Gouging Lord. Tell me honestly—what have you come here for? If you dare lie, I'll make you regret it!"

Lu Feng's eyes suddenly lit up. The woman's unequivocal words told him that he had not come to the wrong place this time. The Soul Control Clan's whereabouts should indeed be here.

Thinking of how Old Book had confirmed this, yet was now...

The weight in Lu Feng's heart suddenly clenched tighter.

"Are you going to talk or not?" An invisible pressure bore down upon him. It felt as though, if they disagreed