If he had merely wanted to kill the Blue-Sky Ghost King, the Extinction Yin Corpse Old Freak would never have worn such an excited expression. In a certain sense, this old freak's body had long since undergone corpse transformation. He could no longer be considered a normal member of the human race and was somewhat similar to the ghost race. It was only natural that the Blue-Sky Ghost King possessed something he wanted.
However, this was not the time to think about such things. Although the old freak had returned after leaving, and no one knew what method he had used to heavily injure the Blue-Sky Ghost King, comparatively speaking, Lu Xiaotian would rather face this old freak than the Blue-Sky Ghost King.
After all, the two sides belonged to different camps. If the old freak developed enough misgivings, he might even let Lu Xiaotian live.
In truth, although the events just now had not taken long, the undercurrents surging beneath the surface had left even the two onlookers—the silver-armored woman and Di Yao—shaken. The Blue-Sky Ghost King had brought it upon himself. He had pretended to leave, while the Extinction Yin Corpse Old Freak had gone straight to the exit. The Blue-Sky Ghost King had followed him all the way there, naturally knowing that Lu Xiaotian had been abandoned as a pawn by the old freak.
However, with the Blue-Sky Ghost King's beloved son dead, he was absolutely unwilling to let the silver-armored woman and Di Yao leave while killing only Lu Xiaotian. There was another, even more important reason: the Extinction Old Freak cultivated an evil corpse-path technique. If he killed him and erased his consciousness, he would gain a Nascent Soul-grade corpse puppet and greatly increase his strength. The temptation this held for the Blue-Sky Ghost King