727: Counter-Ambush (Part One) [Two-in-One]

Watching Feng Clan gradually lose all signs of life, Gu Chi lowered his eyes, concealing the pity and sympathy that had quietly surfaced like ripples, only to vanish without a sound. He crouched down and picked up his sword. The crimson staining its blade stabbed at his eyes for some inexplicable reason, and the blood left on it was still dripping.

"This sword never drank the blood of an enemy, yet it took the life of an outsider." Gu Chi did not know whether he was mocking himself or the group of Tao Shenyu's people who had been taken away. He pulled a handkerchief from his robe and carefully wiped the blood from the blade. "Have this person's remains been buried?"

Shen Tang naturally left it to Gu Chi.

It was only a matter of digging a separate pit to bury someone, and Martial Gall Warriors were highly efficient. They could finish it in minutes. Shen Tang even erected a stone stele for her, engraving: "Tomb of Feng Clan's Lady Feng." Since they did not know her year of birth, they wrote only the year of her death.

Gu Chi then carried a torch to send his enemy on one final journey.

Tao Yan perhaps knew that his time had come and that there was no way to turn things around, so he stopped struggling. He sat on the ground with his legs crossed and his eyes slightly lowered. He let the soldiers pile firewood around him. The other few men, however, were unwilling to accept such an ending, their faces written with fury and hatred. No matter how they reacted, the firewood was gradually brought over, until the final pile was stacked on top.

As if sensing something, Tao Yan opened his eyes.

Gu Chi happened to be approaching