"Shaofeng, are you still cultivating? Something terrible has happened!"
A voice filled with anxiety rang out from outside Qin Shaofeng's door.
Amid a series of bang bang sounds, the words were shouted over and over without pause, always the same sentence. It was clear just how frantic the visitor was.
Such an anxious voice brought worry into Ximen Bingning's eyes.
She knew Qin Shaofeng was cultivating.
In name, she was Qin Shaofeng's wife, yet for various reasons, when facing Qin Shaofeng, she was in fact even less at ease than Yang Zhen and the others.
Should she wake him, or not?
Just as Ximen Bingning was wavering in indecision,
Qin Shaofeng, who sat cross-legged on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes and muttered, "Three days. Is it finally beginning?"
"Come in!"
He shouted again.
Only then did the person pounding on the door and shouting push it open and enter.
Just as expected.
The visitor was Vice Sect Master Sha Longxing.
This Vice Sect Master, who had once remained unruffled amid chaos, now wore nothing but deep worry on his face. He cried anxiously, "Shaofeng, something terrible has happened. Our killing of Yan Zhen has been exposed."
"Huh?"
Qin Shaofeng, who had already prepared to respond, was dumbfounded.
He stared at Sha Longxing with utter suspicion, truly unable to understand why Sha Longxing would say such a thing.
Yan Zhen had been the Deputy Hall Master of Black Tortoise Hall of the Four Symbols Sect.
Moreover, Yan Zhen had come to the Chasing Stars Sect under orders from the Four Symbols Sect to investigate information.
So much time had passed without him sending back any news. Qin Shaofeng did not believe the Four Symbols Sect could truly be so clumsy as to only now realize Yan Zhen had died.
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