However, as the situation developed, Xu Yi realized that not killing Master Sun was simply out of the question.
With Liu Zongdao there, at most he would have to wait until Liu Zongdao left before making his move. But with Liu Zongdao gone, the moment Master Sun said he wanted to stay by Xu Yi's side day and night and would pay only a dozen or so White Origin Beads, Xu Yi had to send him on his way.
In all his life, he had never been treated so shabbily.
The attack with Bixiu Sword had only been a feint, but Xu Yi hadn't expected the sword to be so sharp. Even Master Sun, caught off guard, couldn't defend against it.
Huang Mei's ambush had been the real killing move. Xu Yi hadn't been disappointed in the slightest.
Xu Yi calmly gathered the resources Master Sun had dropped, then unhurriedly removed the Yin Punishment Nails from Meng Fan's body.
Meng Fan hadn't said a word from beginning to end. He only stared at Xu Yi in a daze.
He was completely stunned.
What kind of person was this, exactly?!
As Dean of the Jizhou Territory's Staff Department, he had dared to turn on his own lord.
He was only a Divine Embryo Realm cultivator, yet he'd provoked the mighty Gong family into throwing everything they had at him.
Just when Meng Fan thought he'd finally understood everything, figured out Xu Yi's identity as a Night Walker, and realized that was the source of Xu Yi's confidence—
The man had turned around and secretly killed the fierce, domineering Master Sun.
The dignified Master Sun—a Lower Corpse Expert who had achieved a corpse—had died just like that, in such a miserable, wretched fashion.
What was this supposed to mean? Why was this