Several days later,
in the Zhoushan Area,
on the same island where they had plotted that day.
Several people sat around a table, each with furrowed brows. Some sighed repeatedly, shaking their heads without cease.
"The plan failed. Everyone knows what happened, right?"
Seeing that no one around him spoke, the feather-clad cultivator who had originally proposed the plan of borrowing strength had no choice but to speak first.
"Why else would we have rushed here in such haste? Fist Emperor Yang Yuntian, ninety-third on the Yuzhou Newcomer Ranking, had only recently broken through to the True Essence Seventh Layer. He charged into the Sect Gate of Zhang Qingyuan, one of the Cloud Water Sect Four Elites, and was slain with a single sword strike!"
One person said gravely.
"More than a million people witnessed this that day. Forget the entire South Sea—even all of Yuzhou is in an uproar! How could anyone not know?"
That was right,
he had been slain!
Yang Yuntian was dead.
In the battle several days ago, Zhang Qingyuan had needed only one sword strike to deal with that arrogant fool.
Under that strike,
Yang Yuntian had been left with only his final breath.
Zhang Qingyuan had originally not continued his pursuit, yet Yang Yuntian had, after all, died shortly afterward.
No one knew whether that single strike had shattered his Dao Heart, destroying all his arrogance and pride,
or whether Zhang Qingyuan's lingering Sword Momentum had been too terrifying, taking away Yang Yuntian's final breath.
It was said that Zhang Qingyuan had left after delivering that one strike, without paying any further attention to the gravely wounded Yang Yuntian floating upon the sea surface.
Until more than half a day later,
someone nearby saw the figure suspended above the sea and intended to go