Xiao Kaiyan had hidden himself extremely well. No one had noticed his movements. While everyone was distracted, he quietly made his way to the row of houses arranged on White Cloud Mountain.
Four people lay inside. The one at the head was the badly wounded Sword King.
Although the Sword King's bones had been set, he still couldn't move. It would take at least three months, and perhaps as long as half a year, before he could get out of bed or move around.
After arriving, Xiao Kaiyan quickly sealed all four people's acupoints, then used the Book of Forgetting Emotions on them.
The four top martial artists had their Internal Energy drained without a sound, until they were nothing but dried corpses.
With his goal accomplished, Xiao Kaiyan quietly left White Cloud Mountain once more, preparing to hurry back to the Huanhua Sword Sect!
Xiao Kaiyan thought he'd disguised himself well. As long as he got back in time and continued pretending to be unconscious, no one would find out.
What Xiao Kaiyan hadn't expected was that, when he hurried to open the gates of the Sword Hut, he found that he couldn't open them from the outside.
He tried several times, but it was no use. Clearly, the gates had been locked from within.
Xiao Kaiyan's face darkened. It seemed he'd been completely exposed.
Xiao Kaiyan felt deeply frustrated. If only he'd known, he would have held his breath and killed a few more people. But it was too late now. He quickly packed a few belongings and turned to leave.
But just after he left, Liu Suifeng suddenly appeared. Standing beside him was none other than Zi Fenghuang!
Liu Suifeng glanced at Zi Fenghuang's troubled expression, then turned his gaze to the Sword Hut's gates and said