"Mm."
Xiao Wuji nodded.
Father and son looked at each other again.
They saw the same resolve in each other's eyes.
They had heard everything clearly at the tavern.
At the Heaven Worship Ceremony, the Golden Family was going to take Xun'er's last Heart Blood.
To extract her Heart Blood, they first had to draw out the Mother-Child Heart-Linked Gu that had fused with her heart!
And that would be the best—and only—chance to save Xun'er!
"Let's go."
Xiao Wuji took one last, deep look at the frail figure on the wall and etched the sight of his daughter's wretched state into the depths of his soul forever.
He turned and didn't look back.
Xiao Yang did the same.
Without a sound, father and son left the water dungeon that was like hell.
But before leaving Golden Emperor Mountain, Xiao Wuji stopped.
He raised his head and looked at the protective formation shrouding the entire Golden Family.
He lifted a finger and gently tapped the air.
A barely perceptible strand of destructive Sword Intent, almost fused with the laws of space, silently imprinted itself on the formation's central core.
Only after that did he take Xiao Yang and leave Golden Emperor Mountain for good.
Since they were settling the score,
they would settle it—with interest!
In three days, he would erase this so-called sacred land of the Northern Plains, this glittering Golden Emperor Mountain, and the so-called Golden Family from the face of the world!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Xiao Yang and Xiao Wuji stayed at an inn in Golden City and made no further moves.
On the surface, all was calm.
But the inn's attendant noticed that the temperature around their room seemed several degrees lower than elsewhere in the city, giving people an