Of course Lü Wangqiu had come to meet that envoy from the Mystic Mechanism Palace.
Though she did not even know the name of the envoy who had made a wager with her.
That Young Cultivator of the Hedao Realm had bet her that if Chu Fengyun truly killed Pei Jinghan at the Ten Thousand Swords Assembly, then her sword would become his prize for the taking.
But if Chu Fengyun failed to kill Pei Jinghan, then from that day forth, the Mystic Mechanism Palace would obey her commands completely.
As for how this wager had ultimately ended...
Although Pei Jinghan had not died by Chu Fengyun's hand, Lü Wangqiu still believed that she had lost.
For before Yin Ji appeared upon the sword-testing platform of Sword Cry Mountain, she had heard the exchange between Chu Fengyun and Pei Jinghan:
"This old man often thinks that without Swordmaster Pei, the Iron Sword Alliance would likely have long since been unable to keep its seat steady."
"Swordmaster Pei has taken pains for the Iron Sword Alliance for so many years. This old man is endlessly grateful."
Chu Fengyun's words had clearly carried another meaning.
Or rather, he could not resist flaunting his might before Pei Jinghan.
For today was meant to be Pei Jinghan's destined day of death.
Yet what Chu Fengyun had never imagined was that this was not merely Pei Jinghan's day of death.
It was his own as well.
That did not mean Chen Yan's intelligence had been wrong. Chu Fengyun truly had intended to kill Pei Jinghan; it was simply that no one had expected the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord to dare show himself at an occasion like the Ten Thousand Swords Assembly.
After everything that had happened, she had to find the Mystic Mechanism Palace envoy