Silence!
A deathly silence!
Everyone was speechless for a long moment, as if someone had clamped a hand around their throats.
What had just happened?
Lin Huang, the rising star of the Five Ghosts Gate and a Sixth Gate master, had been defeated by Fang Yuan's Eagle Claw in a single strike. No one knew whether he was alive or dead.
Then an even more formidable elder had come to save face, only to be slapped into serious injury just the same, as if he were a fly?
Could this man be some old monster in disguise?
It wasn't just the Five Ghosts Gate disciples. Even Lin Leyue's gaze changed as she looked at Fang Yuan.
"Yin Wujiu?!"
She took two steps forward and exclaimed again.
"Yin Wujiu? Who's that?"
Fang Yuan asked casually. The man had gone down in a single move, after all, so he hadn't paid him much attention.
Lin Leyue's expression was full of alarm. "He's a long-famous elder of the Five Ghosts Gate, and Gui Wusheng's junior martial brother. He reached the Martial Dao Seventh Gate long ago, but has yet to break through the Death Gate. He's incredibly cruel. They say he once went alone and wiped out an enemy clan, leaving not even the chickens and dogs alive..."
"With this man's temperament and martial arts, I'm afraid he'll never break through the Death Gate. Not attempting it is the right choice..."
Fang Yuan glanced at Yin Wujiu and shook his head.
The Death Gate was the last of the Three Dangerous Gates. If one failed, one died! There was no room for luck. Of all the Inner Family Masters throughout history, the greatest number had been stuck at this gate.
After all, who would dare gamble their own life?
"Gui Wusheng... That name