"Back again."
Lu Yang inhaled and exhaled, calming his mind.
Just moments ago, they had been fighting to the death. In the blink of an eye, time had reversed, restoring the peace of days past. The enormous contrast left Lu Yang feeling as if he had passed through an entire lifetime.
At the very least, it was peace on the surface.
Judging by the timing, the two elders of the Ruthless Sect had already poisoned the canal. The water splashed all over the streets now actually contained Heartless Poison; it simply had not completely evaporated yet.
The agitation of the insect king possessed by the insect cultivator, for example, had been caused by absorbing the Heartless Poison.
It was possible that some children had already been poisoned as well, but their influence was too small, so no one had noticed.
"Fairy, are those two elders and the vice sect master in Kaihuang City?"
The Immortal Fairy opened her spiritual sense and checked. "They aren't."
Lu Yang nodded. This result had been within his expectations. If those two Ruthless Sect elders had been in Kaihuang City, they would not have allowed him and Old Meng to put on a show across the entire city, only appearing after the performance had ended.
They should be somewhere else right now.
A smile of dawning understanding curled across Lu Yang's lips.
They had barely finished dealing with the two elders before the vice sect master made his move. Were they trying to show off how many people they had?
"Old Meng, stop watching the competition for now. There are several great deeds of kindness and virtue that need you to handle."
"What great deeds?" Meng Jingzhou had no idea why Old Lu had suddenly said that.
"Go to Yellowstone Street. There's a fellow there