Tilting her head slightly, Wang Xian had her eyes covered by black cloth, yet everyone felt that she was staring at Shangguan Ye.
She asked coldly, "General Shangguan, would you like to go to Azure Dragon Town and make some inquiries?"
Shangguan Ye's pupils contracted violently.
It took every ounce of strength he had to keep himself from losing composure on the spot.
But his hands were trembling, and so were the hands of the guards behind him—the spearheads of their lances quivered faintly in the moonlight, producing soft scraping sounds.
Wang Xian knew this perfectly well.
Within two days, she would sell off the Du residence.
By the time Shangguan Ye made the round trip to Azure Dragon Town, it would already be too late.
Once they had the spirit stones, they could take Du Yulin and leave the Demon Realm when Old Gu arrived in Sunset City. From then on, they would be far beyond anyone's reach. Who could possibly trouble the shopkeeper again?
So she was not afraid of Shangguan Ye investigating—what he found would only be the truth that had already been arranged for him.
Rumble—
This third clap of thunder was even fiercer than the previous two.
The guards, along with General Shangguan Ye, stood dumbfounded. For a long while, none of them could say a word.
"Fuck..."
No one knew which guard was the first to lose his restraint and mutter under his breath.
That sound seemed to open some kind of floodgate, and the whispers instantly became a chorus of startled cries.
"Wind and Rain Tower is gone?!"
"That all-powerful Daoist Wu... is dead?"
"It's all over? The greatest demon in Sunset City really turned to ash?"
The guards rubbed their eyes desperately, then rubbed them again and again. Only when their eye