A Grandmaster Surnamed Ning!

Hearing the man's reply, Xue Hongyuan frowned again. "It seems this couldn't be that Fan Xuping after all. He's only forty-two, and his appearance is more or less in keeping with his age. We can basically rule out the possibility that he's a Golden Core Grandmaster."

"Otherwise, even if he really were a heaven-gifted prodigy who entered the Golden Core Realm at such a young age, his appearance would surely make him seem much younger than he actually was..."

It seemed Xue Hongyuan's quiet muttering had reached him. Cao Qinming couldn't help being taken aback and asked suspiciously, "Sect Master Xue, are you suggesting that the person who killed your daughter was a Golden Core Grandmaster?"

Xue Hongyuan glanced at him. "No one but a Golden Core Grandmaster could possibly have killed my daughter. Not to mention the two protective treasures I gave her, the Elder Wu who accompanied her was already a Grandmaster."

"Besides, Elder Wu was carrying our sect's Slaying Yuan Pill. It could let a Grandmaster unleash a single strike with the power of the Golden Core Realm. Even against another Grandmaster, that strike would have been enough to kill them!"

"So the only one who could have killed my daughter under Elder Wu's protection was a Golden Core Grandmaster!"

Hearing this, Cao Qinyuan couldn't help drawing a sharp breath. He'd assumed the person who killed Xue Ning was most likely a Grandmaster, and a very powerful one at that.

He hadn't expected it to be a Golden Core Grandmaster!

But at the mention of a Golden Core Grandmaster, Cao Qinming seemed to suddenly remember something. He abruptly looked up at the man who had just delivered the report and asked intently, "What was that young man's name again? His surname was Ning? Was he from Jiangnan