(Zhuge Wuhou 1, second bonus chapter for 10,000 rewards. Uh, it came through a special channel, so it counts.)
Several soul tablets shattered, and a few figures were spat out of the War Immortal Tower, coughing up blood.
"Look, someone's come out. I didn't expect it to happen so quickly." Gu Tanjian quickly noticed the commotion overhead.
"Eh, aren't those a few of Nie Biancheng's lackeys? Why have they come out already?" The tall, thin, green-faced man's expression changed as a possibility occurred to him. He found it hard to believe.
"They went with Nie Biancheng to pick a fight with Dongfang Bai. Could they have been beaten out by him?" someone else said, his expression changing.
"Surely not. Though Dongfang Bai is at the Golden Core Late Stage, he's also only an intermediate alchemist. Even if pills let him reach the Golden Core Late Stage for free, his combat strength shouldn't be that high. Those guys came out at about the same time. It's not as if they could've been outnumbered and still lost so quickly, could they?" someone else said.
As they spoke, two more black specks appeared above the War Immortal Tower and grew larger. Zong Yue had a palm print on his face, while the front of Nie Biancheng's clothes had been torn wide open, leaving his chest practically bare.
"Hahaha!" Seeing the sorry state they were in, the people around them burst into loud laughter.
Gu Tanjian and Ruan Biru exchanged glances, both seeing the shock in the other's eyes. Nie Biancheng was a rare expert even among Golden Core cultivators at the same stage, yet he'd been driven out of the tower so quickly. The gash in his chest had clearly been made by a sword or some other bladed artifact. They had all