Inside the reception hall of the Demon Suppressing Division in the prefectural city.
Several elders of the Yun Family, together with its patriarch, Yun Wenkai, had arrived as one. They were discussing the previous night's events with Feng Shan, an outer division officer of the Demon Suppressing Division, and the others.
"So the one you fought last night wasn't from the Corpse Herding Sect, but a mysterious Force Condensation Realm expert with a hulking build?"
After hearing the information Yun Wenkai had shared, Feng Shan furrowed his brow and fell into thought.
"Correct!"
Yun Wenkai said gravely, "The Corpse Herding Sect's people are shrouded in yin energy. They like to carry refined corpses as they travel the jianghu, and their members are skilled in corpse-poisoned fist and foot techniques. They're experts at refining corpses into copper skin and iron armor, so I would naturally recognize their origins.
"But though the martial arts that fat man used last night were strange, they didn't resemble those of the Corpse Herding Sect. Unless he could conceal his strength even while my elder brother and I fought him together, he would have to be powerful enough to rank on the Great Zhou Name Ranking!"
"Just being able to fight you and your elder brother, Senior Yun, then calmly leave unharmed, is enough to show that even if he isn't an expert on the Great Zhou Name Ranking, he can't be far off."
Feng Shan said solemnly, "What does he want?"
Yun Wenkai looked perplexed. "He seemed to have come to my Yun Family to look for something. He told this old man to hand over an essence spirit, but I've never had any contact with such a thing.
"After my elder brother and I fought him, we realized he wouldn't be easy to deal