Besides, the job he'd taken this time sounded like a joke.
Kill a powerful Ghost Immortal, a Fourth Realm one, no less. They'd even been given the address. It was practically like catching a turtle in a jar, launching a surprise attack, and bringing seven against one—with three Human Immortals among the seven, one of them a Second Realm expert.
With all those advantages piled together, Boss Gu could hardly help feeling ashamed. Wasn't this taking things a little too far?
Even so, he hadn't shown the slightest mercy. The moment he reached the place, he attacked the cave directly. After a bout of battering, there hadn't been the slightest response. The damn man wasn't even there. This joke had gone a bit too far.
He immediately took out the Ruyi Pearl and was about to make contact when a voice rang out. "Don't bother looking. You came to kill me, didn't you?"
Before the words had even faded, a burly, forthright man appeared a hundred zhang away. He looked exactly like the person in the image Zhang Cheng had sent. He was the target.
"What..."
Boss Gu and his six subordinates were all dumbfounded. What on earth was going on? Why wasn't he running?
"Was it Zhang Cheng or Zhao Pu—or both of them?" Xu Yi asked sleepily. His face was calm, but inside, the Unclear Karma Fire had already begun to burn.
He didn't resent Zhang Cheng for trying to take him out. What he resented was that he'd been such a fool, letting his most basic vigilance slip. Not only had he believed Zhang Cheng, he'd even come up with a way to make Zhang Cheng's story seem logically consistent.
Of course, even if he'd still been in the cave at that moment, with the little wolfdog