The woman froze for a moment, then smiled. "I know you acted to spare them some suffering, but you should know that anyone who crosses me—except you—gets nothing good out of it."
After a long while, a voice finally came from outside. "I'm not Wang Xian."
With a thump, the woman was so startled that one leg had barely stepped out of the wooden tub before she toppled to the ground.
In that brief moment of shock, she hadn't heard Wang Xian's voice. Instead, a strange woman had arrived.
The woman in the courtyard pursed her lips and said nothing.
She simply stared at the corpse on the ground. After a moment's thought, she waved her hand, sending a gust of wind that swept it up into the night sky. No one knew where it landed.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
The woman dressed in a flash swept the bodies out of the room too, flinging them beyond the inn like dead leaves.
Before leaving, she didn't forget to rob the men of their Storage Rings.
When she stepped outside and saw the woman in blue beneath the old tree, she asked, "You are..."
"I'm Baili Yuhuang of Hundred Flowers Valley. Don't you recognize me?"
Baili Yuhuang smiled. "Were you deliberately bathing in your room to lure these men into trying to rob you, so you could rob them instead? Or do you have news of Wang Xian?"
The woman yawned and pursed her lips.
She muttered to herself, "That guy won't even be a prince anymore... I think everything from here on will be even more exciting..."
Baili Yuhuang smiled faintly. "What, does the Hehuan Sect want to make a move on Wang Xian too?"
"I don't know."
The woman giggled. "I just want to go to Kunlun Mountains and watch